Premam issue seems to be on its ending note in last two days but the smoke and fire related it does not seems to be cooling down easily. Yesterday famous film producer Haseeb Haneef had posted in Facebook profile that Anwar Rasheed has to take all the responsibility of the Premam censor copy leaking issue as it has happened even before the release of the film. For that he do not have the right to accuse producers association or any other associations in Malayalam film industry.
If we go by logic there something of a good point in Haseeb Haneef saying. But the timing of this expression of opinion was not right as this is a time we all have to stand behind Anwar Rasheed and kill this piracy issue or at least jolt the one who is behind this to save future films from their clutches.
The point in Haseed’s words that if a films print is leaked out even before it comes to theater the responsibility surely have to be taken by its producer as he is the master of that film and it was his responsibility to make sure that the print is safe and out from any kind of trouble. If a films print went out from a theater or after release he can blame the theater owners, or the producers or distributors association. But if it went out after its final edit, the financier had to take responsibility and have to admit the fact that it was his momentary carelessness that caused the problem.
But we said that Haseeb’s timing of expressing his views is not so well because now he is producing a film with Mammootty in the lead named Utopyayile Rajavu and Mammootty along with his son Dulquer Salmaan already declared their support to Anwar Rasheed through their Facebook pages. If the financer of a Mammootty film itself go against Anwar Rasheed then it will read in bad light and can cause discomfort to many people. Haseeb Haneef had financed films like Pathiramanal and God Own Country with Unni Mukundan and Fahad Fazil in the lead respectively.
