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Telugu
film industry expresses its solidarity
Chief
Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu assured the
industry delegation that he would try his best to secure the
release of the legendary Kannada actor Dr. Rajkumar from the
captivity of the forest brigand Veerappan. The rally was organised
by the Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of Commerce with the co-operation
of Movie Artiste’s Association, Film Employee’s Federation
and Director’s Association. Most of the bigwigs of the industry
turned up at Ravindra Bharathi auditorium.
As a
sign of solidarity, shootings and muhurats of Telugu films
commenced only after 10 am as as to have cent percent participation
in the rally. Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh, Dr D Rama Naidu, K Raghavendra
Rao, Jagapati Babu, Saikumar and Srihari were some of the
bigwigs who attended the rally. Due to assembly proceedings,
the chief minister met the two-member delegation in the afternoon
and received the memorandum.
Later
expressing his familiarity with Dr. Rajkumar, he said he would
send copies of the memorandum to the Central Government and
also to Government of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The industry
also expressed its full co-operation in every manner to secure
the veteran actor’s safe release.
10-day
French film festival in Hyderabad
The Hyderabad
Film Club and Alliance Francaise De Hyderabad are jointly
organising a festival of ‘New French Cinema’ from August 21
to 30. The eleven films being screened were made between 1991
to 1998 and it also showcases the new trends in French cinema
currently. Veteran film actor Gummadi Venkateswar Rao was
the chief guest at the inaugural function and films like A
Family Affair, White Lies, For Sale and The Life of Jesus
are some of the films being screened at the festival.
BVS Prakash
Vijaykant
unites artistes to pay off Rs. 4 crore debt
Vijaykant,
the president of the South India Artiste’s Association, took
the intiative to get all the film artistes to come for a meeting
and find a way to solve the problem of Rs. 4 crore debt that
the association acquired over the years and during the tenure
of Radha Ram, the previous president. The debts and the interest
that it has to pay has to be raised. It was decided on many
things like star nites to raise funds, individual contributions
(Vijaykant has already donated Rs. 5 lakhs and actor Alex
Rs. 1 lakh to the association) were some of the ideas that
were generated. The State government is likely to give Rs.
1.5 crore as aid to the association and bail out the organisation.
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