Director Sasikumar has announced that his flick 'Poorali' will not hut screens in Lanka as he will not be selling the foreign management screening rights (FMS) of the flick to anyone in Srilanka. The director has also requested his colleagues to take a similar decision.

 

"An important income channel of Sri Lanka can be blocked if Kodambakkam (Tamil cinema) wants to do this. Cinema and tourism form the backbone of Sri Lankan economy. When the government there allows Tamil movies only after deleting pro-Tamil dialogues, why should we release our films there? Of course, a part of our revenue will get affected by not releasing Tamil films in Lanka. But we should not allow our films to make money in the island country when our brothers and sisters are suffering there. So I have decided not to sell the FMS rights of Poraali to Sri Lanka," said the director. Sasikumar has denied that the flick is based on ethnic violence in Srilanka. "Everyone in this world is a rebel in his own right. Day in and day out, people have to undergo struggles to make their ends meet. This is the basic knot of the movie.", says the director.