Tamil Film Producers Council

Tamil Film Producers Council (TFPC), is a union for film producers in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, based in Chennai. Formed in 18 July 1979, the group has a charitable trust fund to provide financial support to retired producers, voiced support for film producers and have collectively protested for socio-political issues.[1]

Tamil Film Producers Council
Formation18 July 1979 (1979-07-18)
FounderV.Srinivasan, Rama Arangannal, K.Krishnamoorthy, Valampuri Somanathan, P.R.Govindarajan, K.Rajagopal Chetty, AVM Murugan
TypeNGO
Legal statusTrust
HeadquartersChennai
Tamil Nadu, India
Coordinates13°03′14″N 80°15′04″E
Official language
Tamil
President
Murali
Vice President
R.K.Suresh Thevar
General Secretary
Kathiresan, S.S.Durai Raj
Treasurer
S. R. Prabhu
Websitetfpc.org

Elections in the Producers council, which is made up of over 1500 members, are held once every two years to determine the president of the group. Actor-producer Vishal has been elected as the President of the Producers council after he won the election held in April 2017.[2][3][4][5] On 25 December 2018, R. Parthiepan was appointed as the new Vice President of the Tamil Film Producers Council replacing RK SURESH and kathireasan who were jointly holding the position until 24 December 2022.[6]

History

2017 - present

Election for new office bearers was held on 2 April 2017 at Kandasamy Naidu College in Anna Nagar, conducted by election officer S. Rajeshwaran, a retired judge.[7][8] To contest in the election, Vishal formed a new team called "Namma Ani". Main administrators of Namma Ani are Vishal, K. E. Gnanavel Raja, S R Prabhu, Gautham Menon, Mysskin and Prakash Raj.[9] Namma Ani is formed mainly due to improve the present business model. The team contested in the elections and won the same.[10][11] Upon winning, the new team is planning to organise a fund raiser music concert to be conducted by Ilayaraja.[12][13]

In April 2017, Vishal and his team has announced film production strike from 30 May 2017, if state and central Governments are not taking any actions against piracy.[14] Theatre owners association is supporting this strike against piracy.[15] Later the strike was called off.[16] Opposing the non-clarity of state government entertainment tax after the implementation of central government GST, Tamil Nadu Theater Owners Association, has announced the closure of cinemas starting from 3 July 2017.[17][18][19] TFPC has declared his non-support for that strike and urges state government to come up with the solution at the earliest.[20] Also TFPC has requested central government to move regional cinemas from top GST slab to lower GST slab in order to compete with high budget Hollywood films.[21] As there's no decision made by Government, theatre owners strike has been prolonged until 5 July 2017.[22] The strike has been called off and the cinemas started playing the movies starting Friday 7 July 2017.[23][24][25][26] Government has formed a committee to decide on the existence of state's 30% entertainment tax. Its reported that, per day business loss during the strike was around ₹ 20 crores.

In July 2017, TFPC decided to break the exclusivity of them to work only with employees from FEFSI, so they announced that they will be working with both FEFSI members and non-FEFSI members. Though TFPC has signed exclusivity with FEFSI, FEFSI has not signed any exclusivity with TFPC, hence FEFSI members can work with TFPC producers and also with other languages producers and ad film makers. TFPC's another agenda is, to regulate the excessive travel per-diem and the mandatory clauses to employ minimum a certain number of employees from FEFSI to film any particular scene of a movie.[27][28]

2014 - 2017

Office bearers are President Kalaipuli S Thanu, vice presidents S. Kathiresan, P.L. Thenappan, general secretaries T. Siva, R Radhakrishnan and treasurer T. G. Thiagarajan.[29]

2019

Tamil Nadu government issued show-cause notice to the office bearers of Tamil Film Producers Council, seeking explanation for allegedly mishandling of the council’s funds.[30]

See also

References
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  2. "Vishals Namma Ani wins Producers Council elections". Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  3. "Major victory for Vishal in TN film producers' council elections". The News Minute. 2 April 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  4. Poorvaja, S. "Team Vishal does an encore". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
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  6. "In surprise move, Parthiban appointed Vice President of Producers' Council". The News Minute. 25 December 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  7. "Producer Council election voting is over - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  8. Staff Reporter. "Tamil Nadu Film Producers Council election on April 2". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
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  11. "Vishal pulls off a stunning victory in Tamil Nadu Producers' Council elections, vows to end piracy". The Indian Express. 3 April 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  12. "Vishal's 'Namma Ani' plans a grand Ilaiyaraaja concert for TFPC!". Sify. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  13. "Ilayaraja and SPB to get reunited soon". Chitramala. 23 March 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  14. "IndiaGlitz - Tamil Nadu Film Producers Council announce strike after May 30 if government no action against piracy - Tamil Movie News". Retrieved 28 April 2017.
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  16. "Kollywood strike called off". www.deccanchronicle.com/. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  17. "Tamil Nadu theatre owners to go on indefinite strike against GST from Monday". www.hindustantimes.com/. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  18. "Tamil Nadu Film Chamber to Take Call on Strike After Confusion Over GST". News18. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  19. "1,100 Theatres In Tamil Nadu To Go On Strike From Monday Against New Tax". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  20. TFPC (1 July 2017). "#TFPC Press Release on Theatres Strike issuepic.twitter.com/CW9CsZyd0k". @TFPCTN. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  21. "GST: TN film fraternity urges Centre to put regional cinema in the lowest slab". www.deccanchronicle.com/. 1 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  22. "Theatres strike: Kollywood comes to a standstill - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  23. "No local tax for now: Tamil Nadu theatres' owners call off strike". www.deccanchronicle.com/. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
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  25. "Tamil Nadu theatre owners call off strike over double taxation". The Indian Express. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  26. Vaitheesvaran, Bharani (6 July 2017). "Tamil Nadu screens to open tomorrow with no new movies". The Economic Times. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  27. "Tamil Film Producer Council vs FEFSI: What is happening and why is it important?". The Indian Express. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  28. "We won't give in, Vishal on FEFSI strike; actor invokes Madras high court - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  29. "Kalaipuli S.Thanu elected as president of Tamil Film Producers Council". www.kollyinsider.com. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  30. News7 Tamil (8 March 2019), திரைப்படத் தயாரிப்பாளர்கள் சங்கத்திற்கு, தமிழக அரசு விளக்கம் கேட்டு நோட்டீஸ், retrieved 8 March 2019
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