Suchitra Bengalooru International films 2006...Contd

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Dr. Mohan Agase(Maharashtra) , Ms. Manju Borah(Assam), Mr. Ahsan Muzid (Arunachal Pradesh), Mr. K. Satyanarayana (Andhra Pradesh), Mr. Radhakrishnan (Kerala), Dr. Biju (Kerala) and Mr. Gajendra Ahire ( Maharashtra) are the film makers forming the Indian delegation along with leading officials of other major international filmss in India, Dr. Jabbar Patel (Pune International films), Mr. Sudheer Nandgaonkar (Mumbai International films), Ms. Bina Paul (Kerala International films) and Mr. Thangaraj (Chennai International films).

A highlight of the festival will be interface sessions between the representatives of some of the films being screened and the audience and the media. Different media organizations in the city will be conducting open fora at the Green House every afternoon on various subjects of contemporary interest. These sessions will be attended by invited representatives and leading lights of Kannada Cinema.

Veteran film journalist P.G. Sreenivasa Murthy and veteran photographer D.C. Nagesh are putting together a photo exhibition of Dr. Raj Kumar and stills from landmark Kannada films.

The festival will be held in three leading theatres in the heart of the city, Tribhuvan, Kailash and Movieland. Kannada films will be exclusively screened at Kailash. Movieland has a distinct history behind it-it was earlier a hall exclusively devoted to the staging of plays and was called Shivananda Theatre. It was here that the doyen of Kannada theatre and one of the founding fathers of Kannada cinema, Gubbi Veeranna, had staged all his classical plays which have remained green in the memory of theatre lovers in Karnataka. It was also this theatre that the T Chowdiah- produced "Vaani" was premiered in 1944. It is the oldest extant Kannada film which also features in the Kannada section of the current festival.

All the three festival theatres have been recently renovated and modernized with excellent projection and sound facilities.


Delegate passes can be collected either from Suchitra Film Society, 9th Main (B. V. Karanth Road), Banashankari 2nd stage, Bangalore - 560070 (Phone: 26711785) or from the Festival office opposite Hotel Kanishka, Gandhinagar, Bangalore - 560009

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