Rampa's family wants change in dialogues too: 'Sompa' crew

September 7, 2012

Mangalore, September 7: After change of movie title, the family of late Ramapa Poojary, popularly known as 'Rampa', is now requesting that the dialogues in the movie also be changed, makers of Tulu film 'Sompa' said.

Speaking at the audio release programme of the movie at Press Club in Mangalore on Friday, Namratha Hegde, actress and co-producer of the movie, said that the family of Mr. Rampa has now requested for a change in the dialogues of the film too. “First it was a change of title which we obliged to. But now they want a change in dialogues too. But we have requested them to watch the movie first as we have not used anything in the movie that could hurt anyone's sentiments”, Ms. Hegde said.

The audio of the movie was released by 77 year old Montho Lobo, the first auto-rickshaw driver of Mangalore and 51 year old Tara Nayak, who has been distributing milk and newspapers to houses from several years. Ms. Hegde said that the film crew chose ordinary people like them to carry out the audio release as people like them hardly get noticed for their work.

Ajatashatru, lead actor in the movie, Tamma Laxmana, Art Director and Geetha Hegde, Producer, was also present.

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The team — shrimp expert Dr S Prakash, PhD scholar K Kunjulakshmi, and Mangaluru-based researcher Maclean Antony Santos — combined field surveys, ecological assessments and DNA analysis to identify the elusive species. Their findings, published in Zootaxa, resolve decades of taxonomic confusion stemming from a 1951 report that misidentified the species as Atyopsis moluccensis without strong evidence.

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