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The prominent personalities in the Telugu film industry have decided to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of the Telugu Cinema to mark the completion of 75 years. During these 75 years, the film industry had noticed many stalwarts and great film artistes, technicians, besides there are hundreds of classics. The programme would be held for three days on January 26, 27 and 28. To give details about the programme, Movie Artistes Association president K Nagendra Babu, Movie Moghul D Ramanaidu, Mallikarjuna Rao, KS Rama Rao, KC Shekhar Babu and Sagar met the film journalists. Nagababu says, 'We have decided to make the function a grand success to mark the completion of the Diamond Jubilee of the Telugu Cinema. All the members of MAA would cooperate in this regard.' Ramanaidu says, 'During these 75 years the Telugu Film Industry had introduced several stalwarts to the audiences. They include NTR, ANR, SV Ranga Rao, Savitri, Chiranjeevi and many others. So as a fitting tribute, we are planning to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee celebrations on a grand scale on January 26, 27 and 28 and make it a memorable event. We have also decided to felicitate 70 artistes in this regard. The Telugu Cinema Diamond Jubilee Celebrations would be organized by all the 24 departments in the Telugu film industry.'
Telugu Cinema Platinum Jubilee for 3 days
The Telugu cinema, which had completed 75 years, is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee celebrations this year. A grand function was planned for three days on January 26, 27 and 28, 2007. Producer KS Ramarao says, 'We are planning to organise the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of the Telugu Cinema, to commemorate the completion of 75 successful years by the Telugu film industry. We need your cooperation to organise the events on a grand scale. We have formulated committees to organise specific events. The main committee would have Dr D Ramanaidu as chairman, while DVS Raju would be the coordinator, Dasari Narayana Rao as advisor, KL Narayana as treasurer. While January 26 would be celebrated as Musical Day, 27 as Dance Day and 28th as Drama Day. We are planning to felicitate some legends and celebrities as part of the programme. An exhibition would also be arranged to showcase the 75-year-old history of the Telugu film industry.'
Telugu cinema industry is great
The audio release function of 'Allare Allari' was held at Prasad Film Laboratories on March 25. Popular director, producer and artiste R Narayanamurthy attended the programme as chief guest. He says, 'When we are reading the newspapers, I am not able to read any of the news related to our industry. Though appear, they are being carried in small columns. However, there are prominently publishing the reports of directors from other states. Our Telugu film industry is in second place after Bollywood in our country. Don't we have enough directors in Telugu film industry. Even the financiers who are investing their money are only after other language directors. Is it justified? This kind of attitude and tradition should change. We should be in a position to insist the financiers that we wanted to make use of our own language directors.' Director Suryakiron responding to this statement says, 'I am thankful to the organizers for inviting me to this programme. I made my debut as director through Telugu film industry though I am a Tamilian. Our Indians feel proud to go to the US because that is a great country. When other language people are coming to this place means, this Telugu film industry is great. I would like to remain in the Telugu film industry for ever, even in a small place.'
Telugu film personalities for Rome International Film Festival
The South India film personalities had got an opportunity to participate in Rome Film Festival. The Ficci Frames South Entertainment Task Force had given the responsibility to select the persons who could attend the festival. It's convenor Geetakrishna, speaking to the media says, 'Dr D Ramanaidu has been selected as the chairman for this division. An international film festival is being held from October 18 to 21 and we invite the Indian film personalities to participate in the film festival on behalf of the India. This had given the opportunity for all the film personalities from India irrespective of the language like Hindi, Tamil and Telugu could participate in the film festival together through this platform. By participating in this film festival we could improve the business trade of film industry across the globe. Popular producer Yash Chopra agreed to take up the responsibility of inviting people from the northern India and from Bollywood.' Speaking on the occasion, Dr D Ramanaidu says, 'We were able to conduct shooting in Malaysia, Singapore and other countries without paying any location charges. Once we participate in Rome film festival, many more countries would come forward to extend this facility.'
Telugu remakes in Tamil
Earlier, it was the successful Tamil films that were made in Telugu. Films like Khaka Khaka, Ghazini, Dhool, Tagore, etc, are just a few examples. Now, the trend has reversed. More and more Telugu films too are being remade in Tamil. Mahesh's film Pokiri was made in Tamil with Vijay and it was a huge hit. There was also the remake of Athanokkade, made with Vijay again. Just a couple of days back, it was announced that Happy Days would be made in Tamil along with other languages. Now, the latest is that Srikant's Operation Duryodhana will be made in Tamil. Kicha is supposed to direct the film and Sundar Satyaraj is said to be part of the team too!
Telugu stars take to the corporate world
Venkatesh's Adavari Matalaku Arthaleverule was made with a call centre backdrop. Now, yet another film with a corporate backdrop is being made titled Mr Medhavi. The film has Raja and Genelia in the cast. While Raja plays a corporate employee in the film, Genelia plays an NRI, who comes to India and falls in love with the hero. The film is being made by Neelakantha, who had earlier made films like Show and Missamma. The film's audio release is slated for November and the release date is being set for December.