''DESTROYING TAMILROCKERS IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING'' - RJ BALAJI

RJ Balaji's speech at Ivan Thanthiran audio launch:

"Ivan Thanthiran is a film made by one hard-working director (Kannan) who gave his 100% with a limited resource from 30 days of shoot. I have watched the movie and it has come out well. My discussion with Kannan sir is an unforgettable experience. He had cursed me with all the bad words for my negative review of his film Sattai. He was that angry with me. So when he came to narrate Ivan Thanthiran story to me recently, I was scared as he had scolded me previously.

I only acted for 12 days in the film, but I have been given enough importance in the movie. Ivan Thanthiran talks about the difficulties faced by graduates in today’s world. I feel this concept will reach well among the general audience. With every film, I make a lot of friends. Gautham Karthik is now my brother after Ivan Thanthiran. I feel it has taken 4 years for Gautham Karthick to understand what cinema really is but I think now he is finally on the right foot.

Every new technology will seem to be a threat to media like cinema at first, right from VCD problem. 20 years back we had pirated VCD problem, then we had DVD, now both VCD and DVD don’t exist. As a problem to cinema, online piracy is the emerging issue not just to Tamil cinema but for world cinema. But the fact is we cannot destroy any technology. We only have to grow along with technology.

We need to co-exist with the technology. We cannot find a solution to stop online piracy by protesting in Valluvar Kottam; we will have to sit along with software giants to find a practical solution or find money making avenues with the help of technological advancement. Balaji Mohan has done web-series while other directors have been selling their films to online portals. We can’t say if we destroy Tamilrockers, we can destroy piracy because we will have 10 more Tamilrockers tomorrow. So it is better to make money out of these people. I want to say this since I am part of the industry."