Vijay-starrer Mersal’s producer and late producer
Rama Narayanan’s son
Murali Ramaswamy won the Tamil Film Producer’s Council (TFPC) elections held yesterday. In a triangle contest, Murali won the election to the post of president by 557 votes where as the other contestants-T Rajendar and PL Thenappan got 388 and 67 votes respectively. Murali is a producer at
Sri Thenandal
films.
The election was held at the MGR Janaki College and around 1050 members cast their votes to elect the council’s office bearers. Nearly 112 candidates contested for various posts. Last term’s president Vishal didn’t contest this time in the elections. Kamal Haasan, Kushboo, Santhanam, SJ Suryah and SVe Sekar were among those who voted yesterday.
Murali has said earlier that his team would address the issues of producers who are unable to release their movies. As the results are getting announced, wishes are pouring in on social media for Murali. After winning the elections, Murali has announced that he is clear that the virtual print fee will not be paid, he added that he would try to bring in the producers who have now formed
Tamil Film Active Producers Association
under director Bharathiraaja’s leadership through discussions.
While RK Suresh and Kathiresan have been elected as vice-presidents of the Council, Chandra Prakash Jain is the treasurer. Radhakrishnan and Mannan are the secretaries of the TFPC. While RK Suresh, Chandraprakash Jain and Radhakrishnan belong to Murali's team, Mannan is from T Rajendar's team and Kathiresan contested as an independent candidate.
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