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Kannada cinema making waves in international film festivals
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Most of these films hope to be picked by streaming platforms, while two are planning for a theatrical release as well.
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Most of these films hope to be picked by streaming platforms, while two are planning for a theatrical release as well.
With cinema theatres closed, all the commercial blockbuster films are waiting in the cans. But Kannada cinema is making waves across the world in several international film festivals.
In what can be termed rare, five Kannada indie films Prithvi Konanur’s
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For the Left, Mamata became a bigger enemy than the BJP. Rather than taking the defeat as a matter of routine in electoral politics, the Left Front took it as an ‘invasion’ by Mamata and her forces on its fiefdom.
After Jyoti Basu, Biman Bose became the face of the CPI (M) in Bengal.
The Left Front, or more precisely, its leading light, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or the CPI (M), is extending a helping hand to the ‘saffron brigade’ in West Bengal, albeit by default. The CPI (M) is yet to reconcile itself with the defeat in the state assembly election of 2011, when Mamata Banerjee ended the 34-year uninterrupted Communitst rule in West Bengal. For the Left, Mamata became a bigger enemy than the BJP. Rather than taking the defeat as a matter of routine in electoral politics, the Left Front took it as an ‘invasion’ by Mamata and her forces on i