MONTHLY ROUNDUP OF MARCH 2005

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Audience Wants Quality

The summer month has been very poor in the industry front. Except a few good steps by the Karnataka government like announcing subsidy of Rs.25 lakhs to two children films and a few others the films released in the month showed poor prospects with an exception to ‘Rakshasa’ because the results will be known only in April. A well made film ‘Beru’ of P.Seshadri failed to reach for lack of adequate theatre for such quality films. It is in this month ‘Aptha Mithra’ completed 200 days, Kalasipalya 150 days, Joke Falls 100 days and Rishi reached 50 days of screening. 

• 4th March 2005
  BERU – Producers – Mithra Chitra, Direction – P.Seshadri, Camera – Ramachandra, Story – J.M.Prahallad, Music – Pravin-Kiran, Cast – Venkat Rao, H.G.Dattatreya, Suchendraprasad, Neetha, Baby Sowmya, Lakshmi Chandrasekhar and others. It was shown in PVR theatre on two shows a day.

  ADHI – Producers – Vijayalakshmi Singh and Jai Jagdeesh, Direction – M.S.Ramesh, Camera – Dasari Seenu, Music – Gurukiran, Cast – Audhitya, Ramya, Srinivasamurthy, Avinash and others.

  HENDATHIYOBBALU MANEYOLAGIDDARE – Producer – Krishne Gowda, Direction – Umakanth, Camera – C.D.Raju, Music – Abhi, Cast – Krishne Gowda, Namratha, Sharan, Doddanna, Harishraj, Hari and others.
   

• 18th March 2005
  3KHA – Producer – Nagaraj, Direction – Jayaramaiah, Music – V.Manohar, Camera – Raju Shiralkoppa, Cast – Kashinath, Namratha, Bank Janardhan, Umasri, Bhavya, Nagaraj and others.

  JHANSI – Producer – Pravin Agarwal Screenplay and Direction – H.Vasu, Music – Dilip Sen Sameer Sen, Camera – Seenu, Cast – Prema, Shobaraj, Jai Jagdeesh and others.
   

• 25th March 2005 
  RAKSHASA – Producer – Ramu, Screenplay, Direction – Kokila Sadhu, Story and Dialogues – Ranganath, Music – Kokila Sadhu, Camera – Krishnakumar, Cast – Shivrajkumar, Ghazala, Amrutha, Ruthika Avinash, Kishore, Prithviraj, Govindarao, Master Anirudh and others.

  RANACHANDI – Story, Screenplay, Direction – B.R.Keshava, Producers – Venki and Ravindra, Cast – Prema, Naveen Mayoor and others.

• Film city related executive council meeting at Hesaraghatta. 
• KFPA new President Sandesh Nagaraj and his team submitted 10 point demand to government of Karnataka. 
• The State budget announced Rs.25 lakh to two children films, relief in composite and exhibition tax, subsidy to 20 quality films besides the encouragement of Rs.10 lakhs to state and national award films. Government to introduce Anti Gooda act to tackle the piracy. 
• Digital cinema introduction at Cauvery theatre. 
• Cine workers to open a cooperative bank. 
• Vishnuvardhana wants diversion from films. He wants to stage a play ‘Mirza Ghalib’. 
• M.N.Venkatachalaiah the Lok Ayuktha chief declared open the film ‘Beru’ a film on grass root corruption.

• Chi Udayashanker award for P.B.Srinivas, S.Janaki and S.P.Balasubramanyam were given for 2002, 2003 and 2004 at Ravindra Kalakshetra by Karnataka chief minister N.Dharam Singh. 
• ‘Sancharam’ the Malayalam film received the first ‘Lankesh Award’ in Bangalore. 
• ‘Fear and fever’ and ‘4 best friends’ a 12 and 4 minutes children films directed by actor Ramesh Aravind daughter Niharika were screened at International children film festival in Bangalore. 
• N.M.Suresh of ‘Excuse Me’ and ‘Chappale’ received the Vamshi Berkley award for his maiden Telugu film ‘Srinu Vasanthi Lakshmi’.

• While ‘Ayya’ had censor problems in the last month, Aadhi and Hendthiyobbalu…. Kannada films faced censor anger in this month. Producer Jai Jagdeesh was arrested and let on bail. At veerabhadreshwara theatre in Shimoga Hendthiyobbalu…., film posters were torn and the manager and proprietor of the theatre were arrested for violating the censor rules. 
• Quality subsidy continued this month also. The information minister Shivaram promised Srinivasamurthy to allot ‘Devara Makkalu’ in a special category. 
• Sathyu calls Upendra as ‘Praani’. 
• Actor bureaucrat Shivaramu office was raided by Lok Ayuktha.

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