Manikya - 50:50

  • IndiaGlitz, [Saturday,June 14 2014]

It is an agreement of 50-50 profit sharing from the net collection in the theatres between ‘Manikya’ producer and actor cum director Kichcha Sudeep after 50 days of screening.

Producer, exhibitor and distributor N Kumar sitting pretty and moving to Switzerland for the first time with his wife to visit ‘Vaasthu Prakara’ shooting his next film with producer and studio owner Kari Subbu was chatting with the media persons at the ‘Aryan’ audio release in Sheraton Hotel. MN Kumar son is supervising the shooting of ‘Vaasthu Prakara’ of Yogaraj Bhat direction in Switzerland. It is 30 days schedule he says in one of the exotic places of this universe.

According to producer MN Kumar the budget of ‘Maanikya’ is around Rs.20 crores. By 50th day he will be completely safe and film is sure to complete 100 days in 20 theatres he says. Meanwhile the release of ‘Gajakesari’ initial was very good but it has no impact on ‘Maanikya’ Kannada film says Kumar. Dividing budget of Rs.20 crores invested on ‘Maanikya’ Kumar says it Rs.6 crores remuneration, Rs.2 crores interest on money borrowed and rest is the cost of production of the film of 145 days shoot.

The big star Kannada films = Sudeep, Darshan, Puneeth Rajakumar films needs Rs.15 crore expenditure and it has the double the pull once the film is hit observes a senior producer, exhibitor and distributor MN Kumar.