March 3 is an critical day in the 78-year-old story of Kannada films. Sati Sulochana , the initial Kannada talkie film, was expelled on that day at Paramount Cinema (now Parimala) nearby City Market.
Sati Sulochana expelled in 1934 was moreover the initial movie to be screened in the earlier Mysore Kingdom.
To spot the 78 jubilee of the film, Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy has organized an muster on "World Stamps on Cinema" on Mar 3. Over 1,000 stamps representing critical personalities and events in world motion picture ill be displayed on the occasion.
Philatelist Jagannath Prakash with the help of M.R. Prabhakar is presenting this philatelic picture of celluloid media.
Mr. Prakash described the eventuality as a "philatelic tour in to the story of world cinema."
Speaking to The Hindu , Mr. Prakash mentioned that the muster would have hundreds of stamps representing stalwarts of world motion picture inclusive Charlie Chaplin, Marlin Manro, Frederiko Rossi, Steve Golin, French actress Raimu, Lino Ventura, Lumiere Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock and others.
In the Indian scene, movie enthusiasts can have a peek of Dada Saheb Phalke, Prithvi Raj Kapoor, V. Shantharam, K.L. Saigal, Nargis, Raj Kapoor, M.G. Ramachandran, N.T. Rama Rao, S.S. Vas! an, Shiv aji Ganesan, Jemini Ganesan, S.D. Burman and others.
"It is unhappy that you have usually a stamp representing Kannada movie industry. Obviously the credit goes to Dada Saheb Phalke endowment target actress Dr. Rajkumar," he says.
Surprisingly, the first-ever Kannada talkie Sati Sulochana itself has not done it to the philately fraternity, notwithstanding its ancestral importance.
The movie was constructed by Shah Chamanlal Doongaji, who proposed South India Movietone in 1932. He had asked Yaragudipati Varada Rao to send the film. He moreover intent the services of Bellave Narahari Shastri to write the screenplay, discourse and lyrics. Stalwarts from the veteran theatre, inclusive Nagendra Rao, Lakshmi Bai and Tripuramba, were choosen for crtical roles.
Sachin Nayaka shot the movie in Chatrapathi Studio in Kolhapur. The prolongation of the 16,000 ft. long movie commenced in December 1933 and was finished in March. Shooting was done beneath object and Rs. 40,000 was spent. The fight stage in the movie was shot by using two cameras.
The movie was a great success and ran houseful for 6 weeks in Bangalore and similarly good in other places in the then Mysore State. As the initial Kannada conversing picture, it had expectedly generated massive open interest. Hundreds of family groups not usually from the town but moreover tiny towns and villages nearby Bangalore came in bullockcarts to watch it, even carrying food and H2O with them.
(The two-day muster will be on compartment Mar 4 at Badami House at Corporation Circle.)