Raj Thackeray’s MNS will not derail Shah Rukh Khan’s Chennai Express

“Rohit Shetty and UTV officials today met Raj Thackeray regarding this issue and they have sorted it out. Now,single screen theatres will not remove Marathi films to accommodate Chennai Express. After this agreement,we have called off our protest,” Amay Khopkar,leader of MNS Cine Workers Association,told PTI.

MNS was upset with reports that Sanjay Jadhav’s hit Marathi film Duniyadari was being removed from single screens to make way for the release of Chennai Express.

Duniyadari has been running successfully in single screen cinemas since July 19This is not the first time that regional and Bollywood films have clashed at the box office.

Director Shivaji Lotan Patil,who bagged the National Award for Best Director for his Marathi film Dhag,said,”We have been facing this problem from quite sometime. Marathi films face the burnt whenever there is a big release.”