Chiranjeevi, Mahesh Babu & Prabhas, and CM Jagan meet. Will the Ticket Price issue will resolve soon?

A power packet delegation of Telugu A-lister film stars led by Megastar Chiranjeevi met Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy with regard to the contentious price rise issue. The other members of the delegation including Prabhas, Mahesh Babu, and Rajamouli later addressed the press, where they were all praises for Chiranjeevi on account of his having initiated the whole process of negotiating the issue to help arrive at a satisfactory resolution.  That being stated, it is still early days with regard to the issue being resolved. 

The idea behind the meeting was to introduce flexible ticket pricing in Andhra Pradesh, as a way out of the passe that was created by the state government’s decision to lower ticket prices in Andhra Pradesh. Bahubali star Prabhas expressed hope that things would henceforth start looking up, but that is something that will become clear in the time ahead.  Rajamouli called Chiranjeevi, the ‘head’ of the movie industry, even as the latter doesn’t like being called that, and gave him full credit for spearheading the joint initiative. He expressed his hope that things would pan out well. Mahesh Babu expressed similar sentiments as well, as this issue has a bearing on the economic viability of several upcoming movie releases/

A host of movies like RRR, Acharya, Radhe Shyam, Bheemla Nayak, Sarkaru Vaari Paata, and several others releasing shortly, the raging ticket price issue that arose in the aftermath of the Andhra Pradesh government’s decision to slash movie ticket prices had become quite a contentious issue that needed resolving. The recent meeting between the representatives of the film industry and the chief minister, therefore, assumed significance in this light.

While all the big Telugu film industry bigwigs who came for the meeting might be box office rivals, when it came to issues pertaining to the common interest of the movie industry, they all stepped up to the plate collectively to present their views on the ticket pricing issue to the government. In this, they were ably led by the doyen of the industry-Chiranjeevi. That being stated, it is early days yet on this contentious issue and one will have to wait and watch to see how things pan out.