Having rolled out the first full-length feature film by any university in the country and set to release its second production very soon, Mahatma Gandhi University is now reaching out to college students for screening the film.
Marking the campus release of its first production, Samaksham was screened at Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, on Wednesday. This will be followed by a screenings across 212 campuses over the next 10 days. Arrangements are in place for about 3.5 lakh students and 15,000 teaching and non-teaching employees to watch the movie.
Through NSS
The screening on different campuses are coordinated through the National Service Scheme.
The movie, which revolves around the perils of chemical-intensive agriculture, assumes significance in the wake of the deaths of two farmers in upper Kuttanad, allegedly after inhaling insecticide while spraying it. Produced by the MGU Creations, the movie was scripted and directed by Aju K. Narayanan and Anwar Abdullah, faculty members at the School of Letters here, and Malayalam University respectively. Besides the campus release, the function at Maharaja’s also marks the official audio launch of Trip , the second feature film to be rolled out by the MGU. Scripted and directed by M.R.Unni, Registrar, MGU, the movie has five songs composed by Jassy Gift.
The songs were penned by K. Jayakumar, OV. Usha and others and sung by Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, Najim Arshad and Preetha.
