Fest to salute Kannada titans

The film festival will pay tribute to litterateur titan U R Ananthamurthy in its Kannada retrospective section by screening four movies based on his novels, and a documentary on him. Called Fiction to Film, the movies are Samskara, Ghatashraddha, Avasthe, Mouni, and Girish Kasaravalli's documentary U R Ananthamurthy: Not a biography, but a Hypothesis.
Festival artistic director N Vidyashankar said there'll be special tributes to C R Simha, K M Shankarappa and BaluMahendra by screening their films Bara, Kokila and MaadiMadidavaru, respectively.The festival will salute Dada SahebPhalke award-winner and cinematographer V K Murthy by screening Guru Dutt's classic Pyaasa and films of noted cinematographers like Josef Wirsching, BabubhaiMistry , Marcus Batley and SubrataMitra.
Ten films will be screened in the Kan nada competition section: Harivu, Ulida varu Kandanthe, Gajakesari, Haj, Ingale Marga, December 1, Sachin Tendulkar Alla, Brahmashri Naraya na Guru Swamy (Tulu), Ka riya Kanbitta and Chitra mandiralli.
Devara Nadalli (B Sure sha) and HaggadaKone (DayalPadmanabhan) will be released as part of Kan nada premieres.
In the Centenary Re membrances section, tributes will be paid to Honnap pa Bhagavathar and HunsurKrishnamurthy, with screening of their mo vies Mahakavi Kalidasa, AshaSundari and BhakthaKumbara. While India leads the list of number of films (49) , France comes second with 19, followed by Poland with 10 movies.