{"id":459025,"date":"2026-05-25T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/459025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:38:12","slug":"vijay-sethupathi-requests-vaathi-tn-cm-vijay-for-an-ott-platform-to-increase-ticket-prices-becoming-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/459025\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijay Sethupathi requests \u2018Vaathi\u2019 TN CM Vijay for an OTT platform, to increase ticket prices: \u2018Becoming difficult\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Vijay Sethupathi<\/a> attended the audio launch of Pandiraj\u2019s upcoming film Parimala & Co, starring Jayaram and Urvashi. As he took to the stage, the audience members began chanting \u2018Vaathi\u2019 (teacher\/master), referring to his Master co-star and current chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Vijay<\/a>. The actor made two requests to make Kollywood better.<\/p>\n

\"VijayVijay and Vijay Sethupathi starred together in Lokesh Kanagaraj’s 2021 film Master.Vijay Sethupathi\u2019s requests for CM Vijay<\/p>\n

Sethupathi referred to Kamal Haasan<\/a>\u2019s recent note, requesting Vijay to launch an OTT platform by the government. He said, \u201cI have an important request for the Honourable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Vijay sir. As Kamal sir asked, it would be very good if the Tamil Nadu government started an OTT soon. OTT was such a booming market; it rose and then fell, I don\u2019t know why. It\u2019s creating a lot of confusion in business terms. So, it would be great if you could channel it a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Kamal asked Vijay to give permission for five shows per day to boost theatre revenue, Sethupathi had another request. He said, \u201cSecondly, theatre ticket prices<\/a> have not been rising for many years. The price of everything else has gone up. So, it would be good if theatre ticket prices were to be increased. I think you should consider it a little. I\u2019ve been thinking about this for a while now. The cost of production has gone up, but the ticket rate has remained the same for years. It\u2019s very difficult, even though they\u2019re managing by selling digital rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kamal had also recently requested that Vijay abolish the local body entertainment tax, form a strong anti-piracy<\/a> team, implement a mandatory 8-week OTT window, and incentivise film production.<\/p>\n

Vishal criticises Vijay over choice of film ministry<\/p>\n

Ever since Vijay took charge as the CM of TN, his colleagues have been requesting him for changes on social media. After he announced his cabinet, Vishal <\/a>criticised him for his choice of the film ministry. \u201cHappy to see #CMJosephVijay allocating ministries to respective elected MLAs but it’s disheartening to see honorable minister #Rajmohan to be in charge as minister of Film Technology and Cinematograph Act,\u201d he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n

He also added, \u201cHow would I or we as a body or as an association render our requests or grievances of our film industry which is actually bleeding and so many reforms to be made and give a ray of hope for the fraternity especially producers \/production houses to someone who has lesser or no experience of wat is happening in our industry more than our CM who was and is part of the industry from grassroot level and being part of the fraternity for last 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vishal also put forth requests for the betterment of Kollywood, urging Vijay to introduce a government ticketing window, abolish local body tax, and increase subsidy for small films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Vijay Sethupathi attended the audio launch of Pandiraj\u2019s upcoming film Parimala & Co, starring Jayaram and Urvashi.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,5523,397,79175,15837,213955],"class_list":["post-459025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kamal-haasan","tag-movies","tag-vijay","tag-vijay-sethupathi","tag-vijay-sethupathi-on-vijay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}