The Hindu : Karnataka News : `Let films reflect positive aspects of society'

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Nov 15, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka

`Let films reflect positive aspects of society'

By Our Staff Correspondent

BELGAUM, NOV. 14. "Children's Film Festival 2004" began here on Sunday with prominent speakers urging film-makers to produce quality films.

Concern

Expressing concern over the falling standards of Indian films, Suresh Angadi M.P. said, by and large, Indian films had caused extensive damage to culture and to the psyche of the youth.

The films produced in the past three decades had their devastating impact on the cultural behaviour of the community.

The festival is being organised by the district administration, Children's Film Society of India, Chennai, and the Belgaum District Film Distributors' Association (BDFDA), at Nartaki cinema here.

`Glorifying evils'

Mr. Angadi said Indian films had been glorifying the "evils'' of society such as rape, murder and violence.

The negative roles by heroes and heroines were having a negative impact on the youth,he said.

Mr. Angadi appealed to film-makers, storywriters, lyricists, producers and directors to ensure that films reflected positive aspects of society.

Films should inculcate good cultural values and patriotic sentiments in the youth, he said. Abhay Patil, MLA, said good films would have positive impact on society. It was the duty of the film-makers to produce films that would help in character building.

Thanked

The district in-charge Minister, Prakash B. Hukkeri, who inaugurated the film festival, asked the district administration to make arrangements to provide computers to schools in rural areas. He thanked Hariprasad, MP, for providing 15 computers to three primary schools in Hukkeri taluk.

Awareness

Ramesh Kudachi, MLA, who presided over the function, stressed the need to create greater awareness on child rights among children and other sections of society.

He urged the officials to effectively implement the programmes for the development of children.

Krishnan from Children's Film Society of India, the Belgaum Zilla Panchayat President, S.F. Doddagoudar, the Deputy Commissioner, M. Maheshwar Rao, and the Belgaum District Film Distributors' Association president, Avinash Potdar, were present.

Basavaraj Kambi, senior district information officer, highlighted the objectives of the festival.

The event began with the screening of Malli, a Hindi film.

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