The Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce( KFCC) have come strongly to protect the rights of their local Kannada films. When they observed that the distributors of Bollywood film ‘Kites’ had violated the existing rule of releasing the film in Karnataka, they have imposed a ban on the film’s release. As a result, ‘Kites’ will not be released in Karanataka this week .

It is understood that ‘Kites’ was being released in 46 screens in the city of Bangalore and south Karnataka alone against the limit of 21 screens. This had resulted in the blockage of other south Indian films including Kannada films due for release , for want of theatres. In the entire state the distributors of ‘Kites’ had planned to release their film in 90 theatres against the limit of 24 imposed by KFCC.

It has been observed that in the recent past, some big banner Bollywood film distributors have been releasing their films with maximum number of prints blocking almost all the theatres, so as to make profits during the first week. But, ‘Kites’ had surpassed all the records and hence this intervention by KFCC. No one has come forward to oppose the move of KFCC, as it was in the interest of promoting south Indian films including Kannada films in their state. KFCC stated that those theatre owners defying the ban, will not be allowed to release any regional film henceforth.

Can our Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal and our Maharashtra Government take a lesson from Karnataka ? How can we promote our own Marathi films, if the Big banners play this game of blocking theatres ? Recently, even actor Kamal Hasan blamed our state for not encouraging Marathi films, the way all south Indian states encourage their regional language films. Availability of theatres is the main concern of all Marathi film distributors, though they already have the audience now responding well to Marathi films.

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Veteran Dr. Mohan Agashe plays the father of today’s popular star Subodh Bhave in the forthcoming Marathi film ‘Kon Aahe Re Tikade’, which is a story of a stubborn father who inherits a fort from his ancestors, but the same is in the custody of the government. So, the father vows to marry his son, only after the custody of the Fort comes back to their possession. When the son commits a mistake, he tries to hide the facts from his father. In fact, he plays a ‘hide and seek’ game to entertain the audience.

This is what the both of them feel about the scope offered to them in this film and their personal experiences.

Dr. Mohan Agashe, who plays an adamant father, feels that the character of landlord he plays is full of challenge. To play this role, he has used his longtime experience to make it more appealing. Talking about his co-star Subodh Bhave he says, “Though Subodh is the hero of new generation, he is very hard working and sincere. He has a terrific sense of humour and is so perfect in his dialogue delivery.”.

At the same time, offering his reactions on this film, Subodh Bhave feels that it was a great experience working with Dr. Agashe on this project, which is a package of entertainment. “ I am playing a confused character of Malhar, who is trying to do a balancing act to please his father and at the same time keeping his beloved happy”. He further adds, “Nowhere in the film any character has performed deliberate comedy, but the outcome of every sequence will make you burst into laughter. Now that you are already fed up with this burning summer heat, this film will provide you the required cool breeze.”

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Rima attributes the success of her film to all the artistes of this film. The film has also entered the competition at the Iran short Film festival.

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