Sandalwood industry's sources have stated that Mithra and Bhama featuring in Raaga that released on April 21, in over 60 centers garnered good responses from critics. But this did not help the film or its makers as audience did not throng to theatres to watch the film despite the fantastic reviews.
With the not-so-encouraging collections, the film was replaced or shows were decreased in first weekend itself in centers like Mandya. The makers blame theatres owners that they are not giving a chance for the collections to improve and killing the film within first few days of release.
Sources have stated that with Telugu film
Baahubali releasing big, producer and actor Mithra had to witness even worse
consequences wherein film was not supposed to continue in any theatres or
multiplex in its second week.
Sa Ra Govindu, President of Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) intervened and called the makers of Raaga for a meeting where he spoke with theatres owners and multiplexes regarding the allocation of shows for the film in second week. Finally, film managed to get two shows in main theatres Kapali for the second week and also five shows each in multiplexes for two days
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