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Making an impression with simplicity

PHOTO:R.M. RAJARATHINAM

WELL-DESERVED: Students of Shift-I MBA receive overall trophy of INDEP ’09 from cine director S.P. Jananathan at the St.Joseph’s College in Tiruchi on Friday. —

TIRUCHI: Director S.P. Jananathan of Iyarkai fame started off his speech at the St. Joseph’s College on Friday with a frank admission that he was not a skilful orator.

The down-to-earth talk, in fact, suited the occasion. The student audience was quick to realise during the course of the interaction that messages could be conveyed in true depth only with such a demeanour. Students made out from the interaction that tinsel world was all about reaching the top with relentless innovation and hard work. That the dream industry warrants sweat and toil. “Effort, effort and effort,” was his advice to the student community.

“Cinema is the most powerful medium to reach out to people. The industry needs to do justice to the people, particularly youth, who spend money to watch movies in theatres with the right messages,” Mr. Jananathan said, addressing the valediction of INDEP 2009, the college’s annual inter-departmental cultural extravaganza.

He described the technical details of the cultural performances students performed in his presence while admiring their agility and versatility.

“Kollywood is in need of intelligent artistes and technicians,” Mr. Jananathan said adding he cherished his role as the chief guest.

Playing a hero was not his cup of tea, he said replying to a query from a student that was read out by Head of the Department of English G. Ravindran in his inimitable style. Mr. Jananathan promised to analyse why his movies have not depicted a union of the hero and the heroine. This factor did not strike him so far, he said, adding that the sequences in his stories were mainly drawn from his own experiences.

Mr. Jananathan, whose Iyarkai won the national award for the best feature film in Tamil in 2003, felt that there must be no curb on use of animals in cinema shootings with safeguards in place. He described the memorable moments when he received the national award from the former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, an alumnus of St. Joseph’s College. The ace director felt proud of his team of assistant directors, attributing all credit to them for the rave reviews for his movies.

Mr. Jananathan honoured winners of the various inter-departmental competitions with prizes on the occasion in the presence of Rector Rev. Fr. P. Soosai, Secretary Rev. Fr.John Britto, Principal Rev. Fr. R. Rajarathinam and Deputy Principal Rev. Fr. A. Joseph.

The chief guest also released the college’s fine arts magazine Focus, designed as a creative outlet.

The Shift I overall winners trophy was won by students of MBA. The overall trophy for Shift II was presented to students from the department of Computer Science.

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