Friend Request Team Hunger Strike

‘Friend Request’ team Hunger Strike enters third day.

For the injustice that happened to the ‘Friend Request’, the team has sat down for a continuous hunger strike in front of the Film Chamber in Hyderabad, in protest. The strike entered the third day and many prominent people expressed solidarity with the striking ‘Friend request’ team. Small films producers, directors, short film makers, technicians, artists and nearly 200 members have reached the camp and demanded the justice. They demanded, “In case of small budget films, every producer is encountering the same problem. Some big wigs in the film industry are behaving like mafia in case of theaters. Our government and Film Chamber should take suitable actions regarding this."

“We worked very hard for nearly two and half years and made this youthful entertainer with the budget of Rs 4 crores. We have kept our heart and soul for the good outcome of the film and crossed many obstacles and finally we released the film. But, audience didn’t get the chance to watch the film. In city, the film was released in just one theater and with this how can we reach breakeven point. The whole system should be changed,” stated Aditya Om in anguish.

“The film which was supposed to be released in 150 theaters in both Telugu states, has released just in 30 theaters. At that time we don’t even have the chance to complaint the issue to the Film Chamber. So, we sat here for a continuous hunger strike for theaters. We want minimum theaters and minimum shows. Our intention is, not producer should encounter such situation,” stated Vijay Varma in anguish.

Aditya Om and Vijay Varma and the team have stated that they will continue the strike until they get permanent solution for this problem. They said, “We got the support from many prominent people. Media is also giving lot of support. We are thankful to everyone who are supporting us.”