Tom to lobby filmmakers
(No Ratings Yet)After having his much acclaimed music album went off the air due to stringent animal protection laws, US-based Malayalam director Tom George Kolath intends to lobby filmmakers against the act detrimental to the films.
“We (filmmakers) will meet and discuss on this vital issue which is negative to the films. Kanada filmmaker Girish Kasarvallli, Revathi and Saeed Mirza will be joining my cause,” Kolath told PTI here.
“This is not just my problem. It’s a problem of all the filmmaers including technicians,” Kolath added.
This young filmmaker had his Malayalam music video `En Jeevane’ (My Life) off the air following stringent animal protection law objected to the scene in it showing a horse chariot.
Shot in US in 2005, it was bestowed with `Ala Award’ in Kerala as best music album and was aired on channels like Asianet, Amritha, Jeevan TV and India Vision, Kolath said.
“Girish Puthencherry has written the song and music is given by Rahul Roy,” said Kolath who himself has acted in the album with Melissa Singh.
“The album went off the air two weeks back following stringent law,” he said.
“Animal protection is needed but it should not interfere in filmmaking as it generates national revenue, employment and basic source of entertainment,” Kolath said.
“Maneka Gandhi may have enjoyed the movies on screen but she does not know the painstaking exercise behind making the film,” he added.
— PTI
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