Cinephiles, aspiring auteurs and critics, your favourite Sine Maathu beckons you for another Sunday outing with an award-winning critically-acclaimed Kannada film. An enthusiastic forum to inculcate better appreciation and critical approach to committed cinema through participatory view and discuss session, Sine Maathu, brings before discerning cineastes (with English subtitles) Cyanide: The Inside Story. The forum, since April 2007, whose belief is to provide a platform  for Kannada films has featured celebrated works like Nayi Neralu, Beru, Mussanje, Mouni, Artha, Bara, and Aaspota. 

Written, scripted and directed by young and enterprising A M R Ramesh, a Chennai film institute alumni, Cyanide, is his second essay, after his debutant fare Santhosha, a mushy, romantic saga.

Inspired by real-life incidents that took place 20 days after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the film is a taut and well-knit edge-of-the seat gripping thriller.

Sans any songs, the exquisitively photographed and slickly edited and delectably directed bilingual (Kannada & Tamil) film, spotlights on the ideological stance of Shivarasan and Shubha the masterminds behind the assassination, the plight and helplessness of Ranganath and his wife Mridula (the couple who the director knew personally for decades) who gave shelter to the terrorists, and the effort of police in nabbing the killers alive. 

Screening 5 pm  at K V Subbanna Aaptha Rangamandira, 151, VII cross, I Stage, Teachers Colony, Opp Vasudha Bhavan, Near Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering.  For registration (Rs 50 per participant) call: 9242523523 (B R Gopinath),  9845931306 (K S Rajaram),  9980934686 (Thejas K R).