Director's death puts off Madras film industry's revival

The strike-paralysed Madras film industry, scheduled to resume filming on Tuesday, will start functioning only from a later date.

This is in view of veteran director Krishnan's death on Monday.

The Producers' Council and Directors' Association had decided to resume shooting even as enrolment to the two newly-formed bodies, the Tamil Nadu Film Creators Federation and the Tamil Nadu Film Employees Federation, was on full swing.

Balu Mahendra's Raman Abdullah was one of the three films for which shooting was to commence on Wednesday.

The directors and producers would meet again and fix the next date for resumption of shooting, a Directors Association official said.

More than 15,000 people, including members of various unions belonging to the Film Employees Federation of South India, have applied to the new federations, he said.

The election of office-bearers to the new organisations, the spokesman said, will take at least a month. But this, he added, will not hold up filming in any way.

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