Released last Eid-ul-Fitr starring and produced by Kazi Maruf.green card‘. Directed by Kazi Hayat and Roshan Ara Nipa. The movie was screened in multiplexes with only two shows and rented auditoriums in Tangail and Sakhipur. However, after three days of release, it dropped from the multiplex.
According to Maruf’s calculations, after the release of ‘Green Card’, which was made at a cost of 4 crore 63 lakh taka, not even a lakh taka came from the theatres. He does not see any possibility of increasing the investment even after the sale of OTT and television. A very disappointed filmmaker Maruf said, ‘I will not make Bengali films again. Now I will return to the United States and try to make foreign films.’
If you did not get it before the release, why did you take the risk and release it? In this regard, Maruf said, ‘I didn’t understand that there would be no audience for the number of shows I got in the multiplex. If only 10/12 people watch the movie together, the producer will not be satisfied. Seeing this situation, I myself called Cineplex and asked them to take down my film. Because, multiplex already has system complexity. If the show hall of my movie is full of audience, I will get only 16 thousand rupees as commission. If this complication of sharing ticket money with the producer continues, at some point no one will make a movie, there will be no movie.’
Why did the audience not see ‘Green Card’? Maruf’s statement in this regard, ‘while making the movie smart, I have made it so smart that my ordinary fans did not go to see the movie, and even the smart viewers did not go to see the movie. Apart from that, multiplexes have increased the ticket prices. The middle class has no money in their pockets. People will not get sick if they don’t watch movies, but they will get sick if they don’t eat rice. So people don’t watch movies with the money they have in their pockets, they buy food to save their lives.’
A lot of regrets. He said, ‘The picture could not be shown to the audience. If not, show where? But I think that no film is doing well this Eid. “Rajkumar” is also going well? Not all pictures will be “sweethearts”. And not all films are superhits all the time.’ News Prothom-alo.
