After more than three years of early-morning shows in the state, the CM issued a government order permitting 6 AM shows for the upcoming Diwali releases. The GO comes right before the release of films such as Scene, Mookuthi Amman 2 and Ramayana. Massive releases are lined up for this Diwali, and Tamil Nadu chief minister and superstar C Joseph Vijay has given distributors and exhibitors timely relief.
Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana , starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash, will also be released in Tamil, but it’s unknown if permission will be granted for the film to have six shows. This move by Vijay will benefit all new Diwali releases, even though it’s unclear if dubbed Tamil films will have the same advantage. Jithu Madhavan’s Suriya, Nazriya Nazim and Naslen-starrer Scene , Sundar C’s Nayanthara and Regena Cassandrra-starrer Mookuthi Amman 2 , which are both hitting screens on November 6, will definitely benefit from it.
Now, the new rules apply not just to the film’s first week of release, but also to local festival days, public holidays and weekends. The Tamil Film Active Producers Association, the Tamil Film Producers Council, and the Tamil Nadu Theatre and Multiplex Owners Association had put forward various requests to the government, including permission for six shows per day during the first week of a film’s release.
