Telugu Film Chamber to give away film awards

Intro:  Whether the government is giving or not, the TFCC decided to give away film awards from next year onwards on February 6, which is the Telugu Cinema’s birthday. They are also planning to celebrate the day by hoisting flags at every person’s house related to the film industry
 
suresh kavirayani
 
The Telugu Film Industry celebrated the birthday of Telugu Cinema on February 6 at the Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce (TFCC) office building. The TFCC organised an event after many years on Thursday to mark the Telugu Cinema birthday and on this occasion, they felicitated writer, journalist Rentala Jayadeva, who wrote the book ‘Mana Cinema: First Reel’. He researched for nearly 25 years about when the first talkie Telugu film was released, first Telugu word, songs, actors started from which cinema. The TFCC felicitated him for his research to mark Telugu Cinema’s birthday.
On this occasion, the TFCC has taken a decision to constitute Film Awards every yerar through the TFCC. “Chamber president Bharath and senior actor Murali Mohan proposed the awards, which is a good augury. The government is also giving awards and those are different. But from next year onwards, we are planning to give away Film Awards for all departments on behalf of the TFCC,” said Damodara Prasad, secretary of the TFCC. The date is already fixed. So, from next year onwards, they want to combine the awards function with the Telugu Cinema Day. “We want a big function combining all these,” said Prasad.
This is the first time they are celebrating Telugu Cinema Day and from next year, they want to make it a big event. “Because of time constraints, we arranged a small function; but from next year, we want to felicitate veteran actors and conduct programmes in a big way,” Prasad added.
Senior actor Murali Mohan proposed to hoist a flag on this day and sought to create a flag to represent Telugu Cinema. They unanimously gave this responsibility to writer Paruchuri Gopalakrishna to create a flag. Murali Mohan said that this Telugu Cinema Birthday function should have been celebrated long back, but now its good that the present generation has taken the initiative about it. “Many people worked hard to develop Telugu cinema and we should celebrate this day as a festival every year,” said Murali Mohan.
Paruchuri Gopalakrishna said writer Rentala Jayadeva in his book wrote that the first Telugu talkie film was ‘Kalidas’ and he proved it with all the facts. “‘Kalidas’ was released on October 31, 1931 and we have to celebrate October 31 also with a small function remembering all the people who put in their efforts to develop Telugu cinema,” said Gopalakrishna.
Jayadeva, who came out with so many facts about Telugu Cinema history and also Tamil and Kannada, thanked the TFCC for recognising his research. “One Tamil historian told me that he has proof about his first Tamil talkie film, and there is no proof about the first Telugu talkie film ‘Bhakta Prahlada’ which I felt was very bad and then I decided to research about it. It all started in the year 2000 and nearly 25 years I did my research,” said Jayadeva. He added that before ‘Bhakta Prahlada’, the Telugu dialogue and song appeared in the first Talkie film ‘Kalidas’. “I don’t know why we gave this film to Tamilians. We should own this film as this one has Telugu dialogues and songs,” said Jayadeva. He added that there are proofs and evidences with facts. The Telugu Film Chamber should claim that ‘Kalidas’ film is the first Telugu cinema and to organise an event on October 31.
“During my research I went to Pune and there I found that our old film ‘Sampoorna Ramayanam’ reel which was shot entirely in Rajahmundry in 1936, in their archives and I feel very sad that it was not digitalised. We should preserve our history. So my suggestion is to create a trust and help preserve the history,” said Jayadev. He added that the Telugu Film Chamber should concentrate on preserving the archives in a proper way. “We don’t have a proper storage here. The Cinema represents our culture, tradition and also shows the circumstances at that time. So, if we preserve the old films in a digital way, it tells our history,” said Rentala Jayadeva.