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KOCHI
The movie bodies successful the Malayalam movie manufacture volition jointly organise a token onslaught connected January 21 successful protestation against the alleged apathy of the authorities towards their assorted demands, including an extremity to treble taxation connected movie tickets.
The shooting of movies volition stay suspended arsenic portion of the protest. Theatres volition besides stay unopen arsenic a people of enactment to the token strike. Anil Thomas, president of the Kerala Film Chamber of Commerce, connected Tuesday alleged that the authorities had failed to code their concerns contempt respective pleas made earlier to resoluteness the issues faced by the industry.
He said the treble taxation connected movie tickets, which included Goods and Services Tax and amusement taxation levied by section bodies, had impacted the prospects of the manufacture badly. “We volition fortify the agitation, if the authorities failed to see our demands favourably,” helium said. The representatives of assorted movie bodies would taxable a memorandum to the Chief Minister highlighting their issues and remedial plan.
The KFCC had decided successful December 2025 that it would not administer movies successful theatres nether the Kerala State Film Development Corporation from January 2026 onwards successful protestation against the alleged nonaccomplishment of the authorities to see its long-standing demands.
The apex assemblage of movie bodies successful the Malayalam movie manufacture had earlier deferred its onslaught announced from June 1, 2025 pursuing an assurance by the authorities that it would see the demands.
