ATK, a person blessed with a delightful sense of humour, had then narrated not only his filmmaking experiences but also showed him a copy of the agreement with MGR in Tamil, which was almost hundred per cent foolproof, advantage MGR. It had words like `vaarthaigalaiyo. kaatchigalaiyo maatravo, kezhattavo, neekkavo, kokkavo MGRukku sagala urimaigalum undu...' No other Indian cinema personality had such a cast iron strong agreement in his favour.To give a rough translation of the italicized part - MGR gets all the rights to change or remove or join scenes, dialogues in the film. Is it an one-off case in one industry reg one personality - here it is MGR in Tamil film industry and so we should not read too much into it? Similarly I have heard that 'Sivaji' Ganesan another star in those times, after one big hit 'Parasakthi' was trusted/loaned by others to produce a film :o I am more intrigued by the 'business' rather than the 'film' part. How/why do people invest in something, which they may not have much idea about? People have a need to multiply their wealth and if they are already wealthy, they have the need to maintain status quo, if not go even higher. More often, people 'hitch-hike' with others so that they can atleast get the bread crumbs without any issue.
Debate during a film function Mozhi is a bit interesting. Gnani makes a point about people always siding with the 'success'. Without getting into the rest of debate, where I agree more with Ameer than with Gnani, I wonder whether sycophancy is a way of self-preservation. It is probably a way of ensuring that life is 'reasonably' secure and predictable and one is always in the 'comfort' zone. People give a red carpet to those who say WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR and help in perpetuation of status quo for a reasonable time. For many, status quo is a way of self-preservation because it 'does not rock the boat'.
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