Deal with preserving historical past as BIFFes celebrates World Kannada Cinema Day

Movie fanatics on the sixteenth Bengaluru Worldwide Movie Competition at Orion Mall on Sunday.
| Photograph Credit score: Ok. BHAGYA PRAKASH

The sixteenth Bengaluru Worldwide Movie Competition (BIFFes) celebrated ‘World Kannada Cinema Day’ by remembering Sati Sulochana, the primary Kannada talkie.

On Monday, N. Nageshwar Rao and Madhukar Rao, grandchildren of the movie’s director Y.V. Rao, and Lakshmi Narasimha Shastri, grandson of the movie’s author Bellave Narahari Shastri, had been current on the occasion.

Because the audio system highlighted the movie’s significance within the historical past of Kannada cinema, the main target fell on preserving Kannada classics. Sati Sulochana, primarily based on Ramayana, is from the purpose of Sulochana, the spouse of Indrajit and daughter-in-law of Ravana. Sati Sulochana is a misplaced movie with just some images of the film remaining because the proof of its existence.

Subbaiah Naidu, a doyen of Kannada cinema, starred because the lead within the film. Actor Srujan Lokesh, grandson of Subbaiah Naidu, mentioned there have to be extra initiatives from the movie business to rejoice the film. “Remembering Sati Sulochana on March 3 yearly doesn’t do justice to the movie. Honouring Subbaiah Naidu by a statue or naming a highway after him is the least the federal government can do to honour the wealthy historical past of the film,” he mentioned.

Actor Kishore, model ambassador of BIFFes, mentioned it’s essential to respect historic milestones corresponding to Sati Sulochana however the movie business should evolve to altering instances, making one of the best and proper use of expertise. “The film was from the standpoint of a girl. As we speak, we nonetheless speak concerning the impacts of a male-dominated business. Nonetheless, again then, artists burdened on illustration of ladies in cinema,” he mentioned.

A movie on ‘Sati Sulochana’

To deliver the movie again on display screen, Srujan Lokesh, beneath the banner of Lokesh Manufacturing, will make a film on how Sati Sulochana was made, utilizing the obtainable trivia and details about the 1934 movie.

At a press convention, it was introduced that Srujan is about to play Subbaiah Naidu whereas Nationwide-Award successful director P. Seshadri will direct the film.