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In last few weeks there has been lot of debate on Kamal Hasan's decision to premier his movie Vishwaroopam on DTH before its theatrical release.This has been a first of sorts and has not happened abroad too.No wonder this kind of initiative has come from Kamal Hasan who has been always a visionary and someone ahead of his time.This decision was bound to get a thumbs down from Distributors and Exhibitors and rightly so. But for producers and audiences its a win win situatuion.For producers its definately a robust source of revenue in several ways: Firstly,it would get them a larger auedience as in say in 1000 bucks a family of 4-5 or even more can watch a movie instead of seperately paying for the tickets and the snacks would also be cheaper:-).So people who may not have otherwise gone to multiplex to watch a movie would watch it Secondly,there are many small towns where there are no good theatres,although some affluent and upper middle class families have purchasing power fo

Film industry is a fickle world where few bad Fridays can swing somebody's fortunes.I know its sounds very cliched but there is no other way we can describe its unpredictable nature and how luck many a time plays more significant role than talent.We see so many examples of talented people going nowhere but lesser talents making it big. Apart from this there are also instances where talented people have some done very shoddy work and it nowhere matches their previous body of work or reputation.This happens in every profession but since here the stakes are higher and since a products' shelf life is very short,it is more visible I will like to discuss 5 directors who have been very successful and have had illustrious careers but from last few years they have failed to strike gold at the box office and have not managed to come even close to their earlier works: 1. David Dhawan -One of the most successful directors of 90s who I feel can still can give directors like Rohit She