| In another development, a division bench of the High
Court comprising of chief justice N K Jain and justice V G Sabahit
has issued notices to the state and union governments and the KFCC
on a petition challenging the "illegal" seven week moratorium
on the release of other language film sin the state. The petition
was filed by Bangalore city advocate S Vasudevamurthy, also ruling
that pendency of the petition will not come in the way of a compromise
formula if worked out to sort the issue.
The Karnataka Film Producers Association (KFPA), which has been
instrumental in the enforcement of moratorium, has threatened to
stage a dharna outside the theaters, which violate the moratorium,
and has urged Kannadigas to boycott non-Kannada films.
Meanwhile the newly elected members Karnataka Film Chambers of
Commerce (KFCC) top brass met the chief minister on Monday and the
deputy CM yesterday. The deputy CM has asked the film industry heads
to solve the current crisis over release of non-Kannada films themselves,
saying that the present problem was mainly between the distributors,
exhibitors and producers, requesting that the government not be
dragged into this matter.
Gangaraju, the newly elected president of the KFCC, has in the
meantime urged the ex-presidents of KFCC to use their influence
in the industry to make the Indian film industry reconsider the
embargos that have been threatened by it on the Kannada film industry.
Mediator actor-politician Ambarish's meeting with all the three
aggrieved parties - producers, theater owners and distributors -
held yesterday to work out a solution was called off since the star
was busy with some other appointments.
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