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Tallam Nanjunda Setty elected KFCC president

Staff Reporter

Tallam Nanjunda Setty

BANGALORE: Tallam Nanjunda Setty has been elected president of the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce.

The industry hopes that with Mr. Setty's election solutions to various problems the industry faces will be found and the warring factions of producers and exhibitors will be pacified.

Mr. Setty was elected unopposed after K.V. Chandrashekara, Thomas D'Souza and V. Hanumantharaya withdrew from the contest.

Although the industry made efforts to get all the office-bearers elected unopposed, it only succeeded in getting S.R. Govindu and N. Kumar elected vice-president and honorary secretary respectively from among producers.

It also succeeded in getting the late actor Rajkumar's brother-in-law S.A. Chinne Gowda elected honorary treasurer.

In the keenly contested elections for the posts of vice-president and honorary secretary from among distributors and exhibitors, the industry opted for V.H. Suresh and Thomas D, Souza and K.V. Vijayakumar and H. Ananthamurthy respectively.

The industry also elected 32 persons for the executive committee from all the three sectors.

Mr. Setty, proprietor of Abhiman theatre in Bangalore, has been elected to the post for the second time.

His previous tenure was marked by controversies.

He was forced to withdraw "Kannada Chalanachitra Ithihasa," a two-volume history of Kannada cinema brought out by the chamber in association with Kannada University, Hampi, owing to factual errors.

It was during Mr. Setty's tenure the cinema industry witnessed a divide between Kannada producers and exhibitors of non-Kannada films that led to a seven-week moratorium on the release of non-Kannada films in the State.

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