Why Should Change the Movie Title Dandupalya? Why Not Name of the Village?

“Why can’t you change the name of your village as Florida?”

This could be one of the funniest ever sentence told by the court. This happened during the public interest litigation filed by the villagers of Dandupalya, a village in Hoskote, near Bangalore to change the name of the title of the Kannada film Dandupalya.

Villagers claimed that the movie Dandupalya, pictured the notorious gang from the village Danduplaya which involved in robbery and murder later sentenced to death, impacts the image of the village. They also informed the court that due to these few criminals from the village, the whole village has got bad name and the villagers are suffering. Youngsters from the village are not getting seats in the colleges. It has become difficult for the villagers to get married due to the notoriety of the gang identified with the name of their village Dandupalay. They claimed the movie will further worsen the situation.

 “Why can’t you change the name of your village as Florida,” a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice B.V. Nagarathna observed in a lighter vein, The Hindu reported on 29 June 2012.

Madan Patel directed movie Nityanada is also facing title dispute raised by the supportersof self portrayed god-man Swami Nityananda and Nithyananda Dhyana Peetam. Next time I wish it could be Swami Nityanada to get his name changed to protect himself from the impact of the movie Nityananda.

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Kannada films are now Sakkath Hot Maga

It seems Kannada heroines and the film industry is following the trends of Bollywood. Vidya Balan has given a new zeal to it in her Dirty Picture. There are numerous item songs which made the viewers hot in recent past. Some heroine goes nude, another shows her bare back, or posed in bikini for a calendar were common news in the gossip pages. But now the trend has reached the south, that too Kannada film industry. The two recent controversies are the examples:

Pooja Gandhi Nude for Dandupalya(?): Pooja Gandhi, who is famous for her well-known movie Mungarumale shows her completelbare back in her new film Dandupalya. She tells that the story needed such scene. Whom to ask whether the story would have lost its effect if that scene is modified? She also tells that she did not go nude for shooting that scene. Instead she was wearing a saree and was covering her breast in the saree while shooting. But a tabloid in Kannada has reported that she went nude while shooting the scene. It is also reported that she said she has no qualms in going nude quoting the examples of some hot actress in the Bollywood. So Kannada industry has starting another trend that is borrowed from Bollywood.

Rishika Singh Nude(?): Yaaradre Nanagenu is another movie which has created a new sensation in Bangalore. The movie also has super hot Mallika Sherawat. The posters of the movie has irked the woman's organisations and several social groups. Here Rishika Singh, daughter of welknown Kannada director Rajendra Singh Babu said to be gone nude. Though the actress is not nude in the posters, but the graphic effect which shows the actress covered in mud creates the feeling she is nude. The story is of a girl who is buried in mud and she wakes up from it and takes revenge. The scene is shot in Jaipur.

Instead of giving importance to bikinis, cleavages, bare backs and nude scenes Kannada movies has to be improved in their qualities to match with other south Indian languages. Otherwise if the present scenario continues, it can only become a b-grade movie industry.

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