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  • Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce elects new governing body

    Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce elects new governing body

    BANGALORE: The election for the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) held on 25 September has elected distributor Gangaraju as president.

    Sa Ra Govindu from the producers’ sector, Vasudevamurthy from the exhibitors sector, and K Janakiram from the distributors sector have been elected vice presidents.

    The elected secretaries are B N Gangadhar from the producers’ sector, B S Nagaraj from the exhibitors sector and V H Suresh from the distributors sector.

    This year, the post for president was reserved for the distributor sector. Electronic voting machines were used for the first time this year. Gangaraju has reportedly been elected by a margin of 214 votes among the approximately 1100 votes that were cast. He secured 650 votes against opponent Basant Kumar Patil’s 436 votes. V H Suresh is the only pro-Basant Kumar Patil syndicate member among the seven persons who were declared elected.

    “This is a victory for a free mind and free business,” Odugouder, president of the Karnataka Film Exhibitors Federation (KFEF) from Hubli, told Indiantelevision.com. “We expect him to do good for the entertainment industry. The entertainment industry does not know any language or religion, it recognises only art. I’m sure that he will do a lot of good for both the Kannada as well as the non-Kannada film industry. Gangaraju’s election marks the defeat of vested interests that have recently been dogging the film industry in Karnataka,” he added.

    Following the recent dramatic events that have taken place under the aegis of the Karnataka Film Producers Association (KFPA) lead by president Basant Kumar Patil, who was the other contender for the post of the president of the KFCC, many people associated with the film fraternity now expect some respite and maybe an end to the impasse between the Kannada film fraternity and the film industry in the rest of the country. The SIFCC coterie had announced embargoes against the Kannada Film Industry, fraternity and technicians, against Kannada Films.

    KFEF has been the only body which put up a strong resistance to the the government-sponsored Pandey committee, which implemented a semi-official seven week moratorium on non-Kannada films from the date their first release in their respective states, and a limit of six prints to be screened in the entire state. This lead to a forced closure of almost seventy theaters in Bangalore city alone. The KFEF retaliated by refusing to exhibit Kannada films in the northern districts of the state. Only the intervention of actor turned politician Ambarish prevented the situation from turning ugly with the KFPA threatening a star studded morcha in Hubli and the Northern districts and that they would force theaters to screen Omkara, a Kannada film released last week.

  • Film industry vehement on Kannada film issue

    Film industry vehement on Kannada film issue

    BANGALORE: Following up their ratification of a number of embargoes on the Kannada film industry, the entire film industry in the country met at Hyderabad on 22 September to decide the future game plan.

    Representatives from various film federations across India, and industry bigwigs including Yash Chopra, Manmohan Shetty and Pahalaj Nihalani have decided to act against the unrelenting Pandey Committee’s recommendations.

    Pandey Committee had imposed a seven week-moratorium on all non-Kannada films from the date of release in their respective states. 

    A Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Indian film industry has been formed to take the Kannada film industry head on. Reportedly, attempts of negotiations with the Kannada film industry leaders were rebuffed with no indication from the Kannada side to solve the issue.

    Major decisions taken during yesterday’s meet include:

    Dancers, technicians and fight masters from the rest of the country will not participate in Kannada films and artistes from Kannada films will be kept out of the non-Kannada films. Film negatives will not be supplied to Kannada films, Kannada films will not be dubbed in any other language and non-Kannada films will not be released in Karnataka even after the moratorium period had lapsed.

    Meanwhile KFPA president Basant Kumar Patil has reportedly justified his pulling out of the meet with South Indian Film Chambers of Commerce (SIFCC) saying, “They have acted in a hurry. In fact I had written a letter to the SIFCC asking them to visit Karnataka, they’ve not replied, and that they have approached the Karnataka Film Chambers of Commerce which has taken a biased stand on the issue.”