Mysore/Mysuru, Feb. 5 -- Initially, Film Institute was planned to come up in Mysuru, but it didn't become a reality, with the Government not allotting the land. Similarly, with the denial of land by the Government near KRS, Film Sound and Negative Processing Institute went to Ooty. Children's Film Institute earlier planned in Mysuru went Hyderabad way. It is all due to the self- centric stand of politicians that, the art in Karnataka is facing a pathetic situation. -S.V. Rajendra Singh Babu, Film Director

Curtains came down on two-day Paridrishya second International Festival of Short Films and Documentaries Karnataka, organised by Mysuru Cinema Society and Bharatiya Chitra Sadhna, at Kaveri auditorium of Karnataka State Open University ...