By Dr. Veena Bharathi
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” Ingmar Bergman, Acclaimed Swedish Director
About sixty years back, my father Ashwathanarayan started the very first movie theatre in his native place Chamarajanagar, in partnership with a reputed person, who was the main financier for building the same. Those were the decades, when movies were the only get away fantasy world for people from all economic strata.
In the late 1960s, as a 5th standard student, I used to watch my father’s busy schedules of travelling in a taxi or our Ambassador car, to Bangalore, then again reach Mysore in the early morning, leave almost immediately to Chamarajanagar, after refreshing in our home in Mysore, with a sugarless coffee and two slices of bread.