Chiruta is releasing on the 27th, and fans and everyone else too is waiting for its release - only to see how the new heir of Chiranjeevi will fare in his debut. The stills are promising, the trailers are intriguing, and the people are waiting. The movie releases in the USA too, of course, like all medium and big movies these days! The fans will surely go for it all over the world, but how many other filmgoers would want to watch the movie in the USA? Why do I doubt it?! …It’s because I hear that tickets in the USA will be sold at $16 apiece!
…This had been one of my rants always in fact - moviemakers in India seem to think that all Indians in the USA mint dollars in their backyard! I know people who have to travel two to three hundred miles to watch a Telugu movie, and these people still go all that distance to watch a movie! They thus spend nearly $50 per person, for the fans they are, and what does the movie industry do to acknowledge their love towards Telugu films? Increase the ticket prices just because they’re already spending so much!
An English movie made right here in the USA with a multimillion dollar budget is ticketed at $8 while a ticket for a Telugu movie is generally sold at $10. And now, a movie at $16? Will this really bring money to the producers and distributors? Probably not! People would rather want to wait for a pirated copy to be out! Doesn’t commonsense tell that high ticket prices for a debut hero movie will only make people wait longer to watch a movie? In the USA, a Telugu movie doesn’t stay in theaters in a city for more than one weekend most of the times, and is that why the producers think that people will still go for it? What happened when Chiranjeevi’s movie released with a higher ticket price in the past? Who lost the deal?
So many lives are dependent on each big movie! Please, make the movie interesting and let *that* drive people to theaters for weeks together! Make them such visual treats and musical hits that people would want to go to theaters to watch movies instead of waiting for pirated/legal copies of DVDs/VCDs. Let’s wish the moviemakers all the best and best of luck, and let’s hope they realize that patrons’ money needs to respected too!
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