Talented actors squabbling among themselves is unseemly

By O.J.George

We have a strange situation in Kerala with regard to highly talented actors squabbling among themselves. Mammootty, Mohanlal, Thilakan, Innocent, Jagathy and all others have a pride of place in the minds of cine-goers. Now through AMMA and FEFKA the actors and technicians are fighting it out over alleged denial of opportunities for Thilakan and the resultant charges and counter-charges.

Thilakan has allegedly spoken against other mega stars who are peeved at the negative comments. Thilakan appears to be in no mood to apologise. AMMA has appointed a disciplinary committee to go into the allegations against Thilakan.Probably, Thilakan is on the way out from AMMA. Sad state of affairs, indeed.

It seems there are not many active associations on the lines of AMMA etc in Bollywood,Tollywood, Kollywood etc, in spite of wider influence wielded by super-stars and artistes in those spheres. Larger-than-life egoism, no doubt, is the problem with the performing artistes.

There are problems in the film field elsewhere, but chances of this squabbling are remote. Personal rivalry among super-stars in other languages could be worse than in Malayalam. Still they live with the criticism levelled against them.
Malayalam filmdom should be able to solve the problems without creating more rancor.