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Film Industry Bund Ends
 Whole of Gandhi Nagar was looking like a fair yesterday as the bund called by the Kannada film producers brought all our heros and heroines to support them. The bund was called, as the five prominent theatres on KG Road Santosh, Sagar, Narthaki, Triveni and Aparna were not budging the demand of reduction of rent for Kannada films.
The crowed included Shivrajkumar, superstar Upendra, Rockline
Venkatesh, Ravichandran, Sudip, B.C. Patil, Rajendra Sign Babu,
S. Narayan, Parvatamma Rajkumar, Jayamala and so on… And on
top of this, there was a mad public crowd to see their heros and
heroines.
Started from Janatha Bazaar on K.G. Road in Bangalore, the protest
blocked the traffic for more than one and half-hours. Around noon,
Information Minister of Karnataka Kagodu Thimmappa and Bangalore
City Police Commissioner H.T.Sangliana intervened and sat
for a discussion with the Producers and Exhibitors. Protest came
to an end after a discussion for more than 2 hours.
Demands of the Producers association were like this -
- From August, theater rent must be reduced by 10%
- Non-Kannada films must be released in Karnataka only after seven weeks of its release in their respective states
- Reduce the price of snacks inside the theaters
At the end the Exhibitors have agreed to reduce the rent by 7%. Since they have not yet accepted the demands fully, the producers association has cautioned to continue the protest even on Wednesday if it fails.
The Service Charge issue would get a result in favor of the producers of Kannada films in two days time assured the minister Kagodu Thimmappa. The other issues, the minister assured to look in to the demand in proper perspective.
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