Cine artiste Mandya Ramesh is seen inaugurating ‘Belli Bedagu,’ a seminar on Indian cinema at KSOU auditorium in city this morning as AIR Mysore Assistant Director (Programme) Dr. Anand Patil, Prof. V.N. Lakshminarayana (retd.) and Prof. N.S. Sridharamurthy look on.

Mysore, Dec. 10

A day-long seminar on 100 years of Indian Cinema titled ‘Belli Bedagu,’ organised jointly by Prasara Bharathi and All India Radio, Mysore, commenced this morning at Thungabhadra auditorium of Karnataka State Open University here.

Over 200 students of Journalism are attending the seminar featuring lectures on Indian Cinema followed by an interaction.

Inaugurating the programme, Theatre Artiste Mandya Ramesh said, “Cinema is a great medium of education but unfortunately has fallen in the hands of land mafia. The great people who produced meaningful black and white movies during yesteryears are now forgotten with the advent of commercial movies. Like politicians, the journalists and artis-tes need no eligible qualification as everything is centered around money-making. Nevertheless a few producers continue to give movies with good messages but are not encouraged by the masses. Movie is a great medium of education for kids which should be understood by the film makers.”

Speaking as the chief guest, Retd. Professor V.N. Lakshmi-narayana pointed out that Indian cinema had a history of over 200 years taking into consideration the movie ‘Flower of Persia’ produced well before 1886. He regretted that a good medium of education has been totally commercialised.

AIR Mysore Assistant Director (Programme) Dr. Anand Patil presided

source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / Home> General News / December 10th, 2012