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Film festival from September 19

MYSORE: As part of the Dasara celebrations, the Department of Information in association with the Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy has organised a five-day Dasara Film Festival from September 19 to 24.

Over 60 Kannada films will be screened in various theatres in Mysore, and 15 foreign films will be screened at the Senate Hall of the University of Mysore.

Minister for Industries and Information Katta Subrahmanya Naidu will inaugurate the festival at Kalamandir and district in-charge Minister Shobha Karandlaje will be present on the occasion. H.S. Shankarlinge Gowda, MLA, will preside. Besides cine personalities, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Siddaramaiah, Chairman of the Kanteerava Studio Girish Mattannanavar and Cooperation Minister Lakshmana Savadi will be present on the occasion.

Speaking to presspersons here on Wednesday, president of the Dasara Film Festival Subcommittee Pratap said the festival had been organised to commemorate 75 years of the Kannada film industry and added that several films across genres would be screened on the occasion.

While Lido Theatre will screen films that have run for 25 weeks and over such as Bangarada Manushya, Nagarahavu, Beladingala Bale, Aakasmika, Muttina Hara, and Josh, Skyline Theatre will screen award-winning films such as Naandi, Vamshavriksha, Ondanondu Kaladalli, Bangarada Huvu, Accident, Mysore Mallige, Asphota and Dweepa.

Mythological films would be screened in Gokul Theatre and Regency Theatre will screen historical films such as Krishnadevaraya, Mayura, Kallarali Huvagi, Kumara Rama, Sri Manjunatha and Kavi Rathna Kalidasa.

For the first time women-oriented films including Phaniyamma, Vimochane, Kanuru Subbamma Heggadati, Lady Commissioner, Sharapanjara, and Huvu Hannu will be sreened in Lakshmi Theater.

Films with a social message would be screened in Nagaraja Theatre.

Comedies such as Yeddelu Manjunatha, Ulta Palta, Kurigalu Sar Kurigalu, Bhagyada Lakshmi Baaramma, Ganeshana Maduve and Bangarada Panjara would be screened in Opera Theatre.

Children’s films including Kotreshi Kanasu, Tutturi, Care of Foot Path, Mithayi Mane, Gubbachchigalu, Ekalavya, Chilipili Hakkigalu and Aa. Aaa, Yi, Yee would be screened at the Bala Bhavan. Entry would be free for children, he said.

The Mysore Film Society will screen 15 foreign films including Goodbye Children, The Edge of Heaven, Honey Dripper, Tuya’s Marriage, The Orphanage, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring, Sarafina, Getting Home, Breaking the Silence, The Patriot, The Decalogue, The Postman, The Cranes Are Flying, Hero and Grief Over the Yellow River at Senate Hall.

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