Kannada Actress Rashmika Mandanna will now star in ‘Dear Comrade’ that also has Mahanati fame actor Vijay Deverakonda in the lead. In the film, she will be seen essaying the role of his love interest. The actor shared the first look poster on social media on his birthday and captioned it “Mythri Movie Makers. Big Ben Cinemas. & Your Man @Thedeverakonda. Bring you an action drama you will not forget – #DearComrade directed by Bharat Kamma. Shoot starts this June.” Well, we certainly can’t wait for the film to hit screens. However, given that the film is still in the pre-production phase, there’s time for that to happen.

The buzz is that Rashmika Mandana is going to be seen in an interesting role in the movie. Rashmika will be seen as a cricketer and playing for Telangana cricket team. Rashmika Mandana is said to be taking training in cricket right now so that she is close to naturality. Apparently, she is taking training in Hyderabad cricket club and the makers are going to begin the regular shoot very soon.

The actress is currently busy shooting for Kannada action entertainer titled Yajamana featuring popular actor Darshan. She made her debut Kannada movie, Kirik Party. Earlier, the director Bharat rubbished all the rumours about Dear Comrade being a remake of Dulquer Salmaan’s Mollywood movie, Comrade in America (CIA).

Dear comrade is the film produced jointly by Big Ben Cinemas and Mythri Movie Makers. The film is directed by a newcomer called Bharath Kamma.

source: http://www.pressks.com / PressKS / Home> Entertainment / by Shiva / May 15th, 2018

Mysuru:

As part of its 24th anniversary celebrations, Bharani Art Gallery has organised an exhibition of water colour paintings by well-known artist H.P. Rangaswamy at its premises, M-1198, 3rd Main, 6th Cross, Vivekananda Nagar (near Circle), from May 20 to 22 between 10.30 am and 7 pm.

The expo will be inaugurated by Ln. P.K. Somaiah, Industrialist and former President, Kodava Samaja Cultural and Sports Club, Mysuru, at 10.30 am on May 20. Also, there will be a lecture on ‘Art and value’ (Kale mattu Moulya) by K.C. Mahadeva Shetty, Principal, Sri Kalanikethana College of Arts, Mysuru.

Theatre artiste Mandya Ramesh will be the chief guest. N.B. Kaverappa, senior artist, chief convenor and curator of the Gallery, will preside. Artist H.P. Rangaswamy will be present.

About the Gallery: Bharani Art Gallery is the first service-oriented private art gallery of Mysuru. Established in May 1994, this gallery is devoted for the exhibition and promotion of visual arts. This is the only rent-free gallery of Karnataka with aesthetic lighting and display walls, along with both attached guest room, being offered to artists.

The Gallery has attained many ‘Firsts’ such as conducting of ‘Art Camp-Exhibition-Discourse’ of 10 senior-most artists of the State, bringing well-known artists of Mumbai, Kolhapur, Sangli and Udupi to exhibit their special art works. Foreign artists from Finland and Australia have also exhibited their Vedic Art creative paintings here, in addition to many other photo exhibitions and art exhibitions. For details contact Mob: 94485-54221.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> News / May 18th, 2018

Well-known poet C.P. Surendran’s latest book, Available Light: New and Collected Poems, evokes a sense of disdain with a tinge of optimism in its readers. The book includes poems from earlier collections in addition to brand new creations.

Talking about the book C.P. says, “The past is often as unpredictable as the future. What happened is that I had a kind of a feeling that evolved into a theme as I wrote a few tenuously interconnected poems. I don’t usually write objective poetry. That essentially means that I don’t write a poem about a thing, say, a chair, or the weather or a tree. Therefore, very often a theme in a poem or a sequence of poems is likely to turn out to be your sensibility. In Available Light that sensibility is the dark and its absence, which is light.”

The book opens with a tribute to the renowned Malayalam poet Vijay Nambisan, who passed away in August 2017. Remembering the poet, C.P. says, “There are many literary institutions in India — most of them existing for committee members and employees and a few well connected writers. If one of these institutions had shown some appreciation when he was alive, Vijay might have died a little happier. He was a fine poet.”

Speaking about why he chose poetry to express his thoughts, C.P. shares, “I am in the process of writing a novel, Saving Memory From Stalin. And I can tell you honestly it is much more difficult to write fiction than poetry. In the kind of poetry I write the logic is image-driven and associative. I am not too much dependent on the device of the narrative in my poems. To me, a condition of prose is proselytising. Prose needs to convince, and convert you to the writer’s faith. Poetry doesn’t ask you to convert.”

While some poems from the book are about the incidents that happened in the country recently, like the horrific incident in Dadri when Mohammad Akhlaq was killed by a few Hindu fanatics, a few others take the reader through the time of the World War II. Poems under the title David, Don’t Be Sad, That Was a Dream describes the gruesomeness of genocide and heinousness against the Jews and ends with the poem Available Light, which is addressed to Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

“To me what happened before, during and after World War II defines what it is to be, and not to be, human,” C.P. shares, adding, “The David sequence was precipitated by a dream. Its imagery is perhaps period-specific. But I imagine loose connections with contemporary political reality of India could be read into the David poems,” the poet concludes.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Lifestyle> Books and Art / by Namrata Srivastava, Deccan Chronicle / May 17th, 2018