Earlier this week, the Tamil Film Active Producers Association filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court, seeking a ban on movie reviews on social media for the first three days of release. The counsel representing the TFAPA listed three reasons that necessitated the request — review bombing through reviews shot in cinema theatres, stage-managing fake reviews by purchasing …
The Tamil Film Active Producers Association has filed a writ petition in Madras High Court seeking a three-day ban on movie reviews after their theatrical release. ‘Personal attacks in the name of film review’: TFAPA Before approaching the High Court, TFAPA had openly condemned the prevalent culture of online reviews on social media platforms, including X, YouTube, Instagram, etc. The …
Tamil Film Active Producers Association has filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Centre as well as the State government to ban online review of movies for first three days, from the date of their theatrical release, on social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and X. When advocate Vijayan Subramanian, representing …
Veteran Tamil filmmaker P. Bharathiraja warned the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in a February letter that the Central Board of Film Certification should not appoint politically affiliated people to its advisory panels. In the letter, obtained by The Hindu, Mr. Bharathiraja said, “We recommend that to maintain neutrality and objectivity of the board, a member of the advisory …
