Mangaluru, Aug 22: Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy (KCA), Manipal Media Network Ltd, Manipal and Department of Information and Public Relations will jointly organise a symposium on ‘Challenges faced by Kannada film industry’ along with a Tulu Film Festival on August 29 in Manipal, Udupi district.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Saturday, KCA chairman S V Rajendra Singh Babu said that the Tulu Film Festival would be held to commemorate the milestone of release of 50 Tulu feature films till date.
The symposium will deliberate on the challenges faced by the Kannada films in the present day owing to heavy competition from movies made in other languages. Based on the findings of a study conducted on this issue, various aspects of the topic will be discussed in the symposium by Dr Gururaj Kidiyoor. The symposium will be held at T A Pai Management Institute auditorium, Manipal at 10.30 a.m.
Managing-editor of Taranga weekly magazine Dr Sandhya S Pai will inaugurate the programme. Director of Manipal Media Network Ltd Gautham Pai, Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce president Thomas D’Souza and others will be present in inauguration programme, he said.
Tulu Film Festival to be held
He said that the Tulu Film Festival would be inaugurated by urban development and Udupi district in-charge minister Vinay Kumar Sorake. On the occasion, infrastructure development and information minister R Roshan Baig will release the book ‘Tulu Bhasheya Suvarna Chitragalu’ (Golden movies of Tulu Cinema) written by Thamma Laxman. Udupi MLA Pramod Madhwaraj will preside over the programme, he informed.
Academy registrar H B Dinesh and Dr Gururaj Kidiyoor and were present on the occasion.






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