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Madras Film Society felicitated

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CINEMA STILL RULES: (From right) Actor Prakash Raj, Madras Film Society president Sv.Rm. Ramanathan, US Consul General David T. Hopper, Max Muller Bhavan Director Gabriele Landwehr and Japanese Vice-Consul Sukura Ozaki at the MFS event in Chennai. & #151; Photo: S.S. Kumar

CHENNAI: It was an evening filled with nostalgia.

Speakers, led by actor Prakash Raj, who addressed the film festival organised by the Madras Film Society (MFS) had one incident or the other to narrate about the Society and its service to connoisseurs of films.

Inaugurating the Society's golden jubilee year, which was marked by a film titled `Thrillers and Chillers' on Monday, Prakash Raj spoke at length about his association with the film society movement since his days in Bangalore.

The MFS was founded in 1957 to screen various films from all over the world.

David T. Hopper, Consul General for the United States in South India, who was the chief guest at the event, said,

"I am proud of the Consulate's long standing and cordial association with the Madras Film Society for the past 50 years.

I note that in over 100 years of the history of films, more than once the film industry has been declared dead only to come back stronger than ever. If anyone has any doubt about the viability of films, even in this age of the Internet and rapid technological advances, they need only to come to India to see how the industry is thriving, and to Chennai to see how the Madras Film Society is marching elegantly with its head high."

The Society's work was felicitated by Frederick J. Kaplan, Consul for Public Affairs, US Consulate; Dr. Gabriele Landwehr, Director, Max Muller Bhavan; Sakura Ozaki, Vice-Consul Japanese Consulate; film director S.P. Muthuraman, K.N. Venkiteswaran, critic and writer Randor Guy.

President of the Society Abirami Sv.Rm. Ramanathan, Vice-President Nalli Kuppusamy Chetti, Executive Vice-President K.S. Govindaraj, and Secretary S. Mahadevan were among those who spoke on the occasion.

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