Will Kaavalan hit the screen at least on Pongal?

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Pongal festival season 2011 is getting over crowded in Tamil cinema, as four major films trying to get theater dates. They are Vijay's Kavalan, Dhanush's Aadukalam, Karthi's Siruthai and PA Vijay's Ilaignan written by Chief Minister Karunanidhi. Sun Pictures have confirmed the maximum number of screens for their Vetrimaran's Aadukalam. Ilaignan marketing is taken over by Red Giants, which will make sure the theaters. Studio Green's Siruthai has advantage as they confirmed many screens in November. Now Kavalan has not even started booking screens for the best festival time, but already blocked by others.

These days a big film releases in about 250 to 300 theaters in Tamil Nadu, which claims to have around 1500 screens. But in reality there are only 925 screens suitable for screening. In short Aadukalam, Siruthai and Ilaignan will corner all primes screens especially in small cities like Madurai, Salem and Tirunelveli. Added to these all films, Kamal Haasan's Manmadhan Ambu, Red Giant's own house production will be released for Christmas on December 23. In large centers, the movie can not be stopped 21 days after the release for Pongal releases. This means that the festival time is even harder to give theaters to Kavalan movie.

Meanwhile Sakthi Chidambaram is the man to sort out many unresolved issues of marketing Kavalan with theater association in Tamil Nadu. The producer of Malayalam, Bodyguard Johnny Sagirika has also filed legal complaint that he was not paid for the remake rights in Tamil (Kavalan is a remake of Bodyguard) by its director Siddique. But in the film industry can turn the tide in a few minutes and if all goes well the film has a chance to be released on Pongal.