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This page was updated on:
March 13, 2011
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Expert Committee to take final call
At
last an effort to draw the final line to battle of pro-Kannada
and non-Kannada films is happening. As proposed on the day
when the Kannada film industry went on a massive protest rally,
the government has formed a 22-member committee to take the
final call on the issue. K.P. Pandey (Additional Chief Secretary),
Parvathamma Rajkumar, Ravichandran, Raghavendra Rajkumar,
C.S. Kedar, Baragooru Ramachandrappa, Rajendra Singh Babu,
Basanthkumar Patil, Ambarish, S. Ramesh, H.D. Kumaraswamy,
Mukhyamanthri Chandru, Umasri, Ramu, B.C. Patil, Rokline Venkatesh,
Odugaudar, K.C.N. Chandrashekhar, Mahendra Jain, V.S. Arunkumar,
N.R. Nanjundegowda and R.S. Patil are the committee members.
Yesterday this expert panel headed by K.P. Pandey recommended
the government to reconsider the slash in entertainment tax,
which was  reduced
to 40% from 70%. After three hours meeting, the panel decided
to stop the simultaneous release of other language films in
Bangalore. Non-Kannada films should be released in Karnataka
only after seven weeks of their release in their respective
states is the other point on which the Kannada film industry
was firm. This rule was made long back and but was never imposed
seriously. Also the panel wants to permit only six prints
of other language films.
Seven week moratorium for non-Kannada film release is already
in trial while the increase in tax has to be revisited by
Dy. CM Siddaramaiah. The committee is meeting again after
15 days to take some firm decisions for the betterment of
Kannada film industry.
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