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R.K Selvamani hits back at Vishal

Thursday, July 27, 2017 • Tamil Comments
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As we reported earlier the Tamil Nadu Film Producer`s Council chief Vishal issued a statement in which he advised the members to fix wages for the crew and not adhere to the FEFSI member`s unreasonable demands. Read: Is Tamil cinema heading towards another major strike?

R.K. Selvamani the head of the Film Employees Federation of South India (FEFSI) has hit back at Vishal after stating that his federation has taken huge steps to aid producers by lowering wages by 40 percent for low budget films and also reducing wages if the shooting extends beyond by four hours. He has asked the producers to cut costs by reducing the salaries of heroes which is too high and other perks like caravan charges. He added that while the crew wages constitutes only 20 percent of the production cost the aforementioned sums up to almost 50 percent. He assured the producers that after the actors salaries are reduced and still the production cost is high FEFSI will reduce the wages even further.

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