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Film fraternity sore over 'discrimination'

Last Updated 03 February 2015, 20:42 IST

Discontentment among the film fraternity for the ‘discrimination’against them marked the last day of the 81st all India Kannada Sahitya Sammelana here on Tuesday.

Bigwigs from the tinsel town expressed disappointment that the session on Kannada cinema had been allotted the ‘parallel dais’ and not the main dais at the conference venue. The session, scheduled at 9.30 am, did not start even by 10.45 am, leaving the industry people miffed.

Actor Shivaram and director Rajendra Singh Babu were unhappy that there were not many people taking part in the session. The organisers pacified Shivaram and Babu and took the film personalities towards the main dais. Even after that, by 1 pm, the session did not begin. Disappointed, Shivaram and Thomas D’Souza, president of the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce, walked out.

Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa were among politicians who made it to the conference on Tuesday.

In his speech, Gowda called upon the people to unitedly fight for the cause of the State and its language. Yeddyurappa demanded that the government should discuss the issues raised at the conference in the ongoing session of the legislature and implement them.

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(Published 03 February 2015, 20:42 IST)

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