Mersal, Vijay’s 61st film, Mersal was a super duper hit.
For one, it kindled a lot of controversy – mainly because of the few minutes of GST related dialogues in the climax. After receiving strong political comments the movie’s popularity soared.
Second, the movie has a wonderful story, star cast and a social message to celebrate.
Thalapathy’s fans took the movie to great heights and the movie did very well in box office.
However, recently there were a few messages circulating in social media that claimed Mersal to be a movie that incurred huge loss.
“#Mersal 60 crores loss for the producer. Who will save him?”
– S Ve Sekar pic.twitter.com/d5bHQsUYkk
— Trollywood (@TrollywoodOffl) November 29, 2017
The message had been swiftly circulating, obviously without any proof. But since it went viral on social media, many had believed that Mersal was indeed a failure.
However it turns out that it was a rumour which was not based on proven facts.
Film producer Dhananjayan who is also an award winning film critic jumped in to clarify the same. He tweeted the following:
Shocked to read such exaggerated statements that #Mersal incurred huge loss. Looks like a motivated campaign. When the Producer is not talking about it, how come others are quoting such figures? On what basis? My calculation is it’s a profitable film. Truth may be out soon. My view is #Mersal has earned the biggest share to all distributors, exhibitors, theatre owners, vendors & everyone involved. So, it can’t be a loss to the Producer. Let the Producer declare the numbers. Others should stop speculating & quote illogical numbers as loss
Shocked to read such exaggerated statements that #Mersal incurred huge loss. Looks like a motivated campaign. When the Producer is not talking about it, how come others are quoting such figures? On what basis? My calculation is it’s a profitable film. Truth may be out soon👍👍👍 https://t.co/wPPHhFi1Rw
— Dhananjayan Govind (@Dhananjayang) November 29, 2017
My view is #Mersal has earned the biggest share to all distributors, exhibitors, theatre owners, vendors & everyone involved. So, it can’t be a loss to the Producer. Let the Producer declare the numbers. Others should stop speculating & quote illogical numbers as loss ✍️✍️
— Dhananjayan Govind (@Dhananjayang) November 29, 2017
There are also a few other tweets in support of the same:
The share which producer,distributor,theatres have got as share from #Mersal is 2 to 3 times higher than the biggest blockbuster of many big heroes.
Always try to counter Vijay’s success by ur next film. Not thru cooked up stories.
— Ajay Srinivasan (@Ajaychairman) November 26, 2017
All Trackers are coming forward to slap on those paid and motivated groups.. !#Mersal #IndustrialBlockbuster #ThalapathyVijay pic.twitter.com/zMWnQX5K3Q
— Troll Cinema ( TC ) (@TrollCinemaOff) November 29, 2017
Shocked to hear about motivated campaign against #Mersal. Payment from 10K to 50K paid to individuals and groups for such campaigns by a manager of leading hero! #Shame
— Dindigul Cineplex (@DindigulCinemas) November 30, 2017
However, still someone has to “prove” the claim – it has to be the producers of the movie, right?
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