PD Ponders

We at Prakasam trust staged a play "Hosabelaku" to bring in audiences to our new found auditorium in Basavanagudi called Kala Soudha.  This is a song from that play.  Play is directed by PD Sathish Chandra, Re Written based on the movie & novel (Movie directed by Dorai-Bhagwan and novel written by Ms. Vani) by Chandan Shankar and music is by M Rangarao. Lyrics: Kuvempu (teredide mane) & Chi Udayashankar (all other songs), Singer: Dr. Rajkumar, S Janaki, Vani Jayaram.  For further information on us and on the play please log on to prakasamtrust.org/hb When we started this production the intention was to entertain & also bring in new audiences to watch our production.  Because the audiences we were targeting were from areas around Kala Soudha , our new auditorium and were naive and not exposed to theatre and we did not want to shock them with a heavy play.  So we came up with this play took permission from the director of the m...

I have been writing on and off on topics ranging from performing arts to technology. I have written for periodicals, journals, newspapers and search engine optimisation content too. Why have I done all this too has many reasons. It all started way back in early 90's for academic reasons. I had to submit articles for my journalism assignments in graduation class. I started writing for 'collegeu ranga' youth section of Kannada Prabha (a famous Kannada daily run by the Goenka group). This was my first shot at professional writing. Post that I even served as reporter for The Hindu (the famous south Indian daily run by the Kasturi group). By this time I had realised that my fantasies of journalistic writing being the fourth estate was shattered. I was told in The Hindu by my chief editor that I should not use 'is' but have to use 'was' since it was the style of the paper. I remember while writing a review for a play on Ambedkar, I had trashed out the poor product...