The rehearsals for the cultural programmes of the  Centenary Celebrations of the Indian film industry which is slated from the 22-24 September was kick started on Thursday at the G M Rejoyz Auditorium in Malleshwaram.

The inauguration of the rehearsals was attended by actor-producer-director V Ravichandran, Jaggesh, Sa Ra Govindu, KFCC president B Vijayakumar, Rajendra Singh Babu, S A Chinnegowda, Vijayaraghavendra, Tara, Pooja Gandhi, Priya Gandhi, Rockline Venkatesh, M S Ramesh and others. Ravichandran, Jaggesh and others inaugurated the activites by lighting the lamp.

The cultural activities of the Kannada Film Industry are headed by S Narayan and Narayan along with actor-director Ramesh Aravind has charted out the programmes for duration of one and a half hours. Choreographers A Harsha, Malur Srinivas and Kalai who were present at the occasions started the rehearsals.