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Metro cultural round-up
Sadhana Sargam
The Ukkunagaram broadway sported a look of festivity last week, right from its starting point at Kurmannapalem junction on National Highway No.5, with all its interior roads and bylanes with multitudes of people, attired in their best, speeding their way to attend the 'VSP Turnaround Celebrations'.Replete with equidistantly spaced arches of welcome which in turn stood decorated with innumerable number of luxes lending grandeur, they seemed to converge at the makeshift but luxuriantly large auditorium on the Trishna grounds in the VSP township. Over all, it manifested an illusion of a circumgyratory tides of a human sea of all age groups, mostly employees, from the lowest to the top most rung of VSP, sans any barrier.A grand spectacle it was indeed - a manifestation of the joyous moments all around derived out of the collective achievement of a prideful turnaround, most gratifyingly a resurgence plunging into profit from the plightful process of sinking in debts. All kudos to the VSP collective for its ardour imbibing the motive power of work culture and harvesting gold out of its soulful implementation in deed, under the dynamic leadership of its Chariman and Managiang Director, B.K. Panda. Celebrating the great event, the VSP authorities organised a multi-coloured fete of two days. It got off to a grand start with the Steel Exhibition inaugurated by the Union Minister for Steel, B.K.Tripathy.A grand gala cultural programme, `Bolly Tolly', a musical nite presented by MV Event Managers followed at the Trishna Grounds auditorium. Inaugurated by Mr. Panda, the music team comprised popular and reputed singers, Sadhana Sargam and Babul Suprio from Mumbai and M. Vijayalakshmi, Usha, Mallikarjun and Vinod Babu from Hyderabad. They appropriately chose a well balanced repertoire, a combination of old and new film hits, besides a few numbers from their own private albums. Each of them with one's scintillating rendering enraptured the audience for more than two and half hours. The aesthetically melodious songs like 'Pehlaanasha' from 'Jo Jeetha Wohi Sikandar' by Sadhana and 'Ye Divilo Virisina Paarijaathamo' from 'Kanne Vayasu' by Vinod in particular stood out.
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Usha
'Parijaatham', a compilation of 23 short stories of the reputed writer Muddamsetti Hanumantha Rao, was released by the Visakha Royal Cultural Academy president, B.V. Bangarraju (also a noted writer poet), at a function held under the auspices of Spandana, a literary body, in the premises of the Government Regional Library in Dwarakanagar recently. While the Librarian, G. Krishna Reddy, was in the chair, the Chairman of the Kanakamahalakshmi Devasthanam Board, Tummala Rajpapayya, the chief of the Kanakamahalakshmi Cooperative Bank, P. Raghunadha Rao, and the executive director of Cable Vision, N. Seshagiri Rao, were the guests of honour.They were all praise for Hanumatha Rao's marathon effort scripting and publishing over 600 short stories, more than 40 novels and dozens of plays and playlets, most of which were broadcast by Akashvani. ''While the style is simple and reader-friendly, the content invariably depicts the infinite ramifications of the problems that confront the common man in day-to-day life. In short, they not only reflect the various hues of the ongoing processess in society and animadverting the wrongs in the writer's own subtle way, but also offer simple and acceptable solutions,'' opined the reputed litterateur, D.V. Surya Rao, reviewing the book. ''Both Hanumantha Rao's style and subject reflecting the native fervour create an awareness of the social obligation in the minds of the readers.''The book was dedicated to Moturu Srirama Krishana, Spandana's founder-president of the Spandana, by the writer on the occasion. The senior journalist, G.S.N. Murthy, and men of letters like Ghandikota Brahmaji Rao, Ponnada Kumar, Chaganti S. Rao, Vasudeva Rao, R.V. Gopala Rao spoke. P. Rajendra Prasad compered the programme.
A RAMALINGA SASTRY
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