With a string a flops, star actress Trisha Krishnan was suffering through a rough patch until get last movie ’96’ opened to public. The feel-good love story, featuring Vijay Sethupathi as its main lead, was directed by a newcomer Prem Kumar.
Even after five weeks of release, the film which has opened to positive reviews and ratings is still performing well at the box-office. The makers, who didn’t expect that film will run for so long, made an agreement with Sun TV that right TV rights of this film. In the agreement with makers, were informed about the early telecast of ’96’ on the small screen. The channel is gearing up to premiere the film on November 6th, i.e on Diwali day.
But, the idea of telecasting the film for Diwali hasn’t gone down well with Trisha, who opined that the film is running in theatres with a good occupancy and advised that the TV channel management should reconsider the decision and asked: “the film would be telecasted for Pongal 2018. it’s unfair to telecast the film now as it is running well in theatres. Given that the film has high occupancy, telecasting on a TV will affect its long run in cinemas
#Ban96MoviePremier is the hashtag Trisha made use of while tweeting about it. While some fans of Trisha are backing her, others questioned her how can a deal which was already closed can be renegotiated now. It remains to be seen what will be the decision of SUN TV and in the meanwhile, let’s wait for an update from the media.