a few days ago the internet once again went overdrive proclaiming that dileeps ramaleela would hit theatres on september 21 however its director arun gopy denied the reports saying that there was never such a plan in the first placenow he tells us that the team will convene soon and announce the release date of the film which has been on the backburner since dileeps arrest in july we are not planning to prolong it anymore we will decide the date in a week says the debutant directoron how worried he is about the fate of the film especially with the majority of the audience seemingly against the actor arun says if the movie is good it will run in theatres i dont believe that casting a particular actor alone makes a movie a box office success in that case all superstar movies must be hits i wont deny that actors are part of the entertainment quotient and to some point also pull in the audience to the theatres but ultimately a film will succeed only if the movie entertains the audience if ramaleela satisfies the audience irrespective of who stars in it they will welcome it if it doesnt entertain they would snub itarun also puts up a brave front in spite of the hassles his first movie has to go through before the release its been a crisis something we have no control over every time i step out i have been flooded with demoralising questions on the movies release and if its bad omen that a debut directors film struggles to reach theatres he says but i am viewing it as glass half full i know a lot of assistant directors who are yet to helm a film this crisis happened because we put in the effort and completed the movie which by the way i think is a favourable circumstance we are fortunate that we finished dubbing and censoring and is now set to release it so i am confident this phase will passthe director says he is also glad that the entire team of the film stood together we finished shooting ramaleela before the whole issue happened and all of us had a lot of happy moments on the sets i think that has only made the movie that much dearer to me producer tomichan mulakkupadam and also dileepettan just because of this crisis no one ever shunned the movie i consider it the biggest blessing that tomichayan had produced the movie because he told us you have all done your job and i can take it from here he never once blamed us or held us responsible for the films delay says arun who is now gearing up his second directorial