Tulu Film Industry Though Tulu has a limited market, it has created its own mark in regional film history by producing some 30 films in 30 years. This was possible only because of adventuresome men who wanted to make it in a big manner in their own language. In...
Improvisation Like a painter or a musician, a filmmaker can also exhibit his creative instincts by selecting presentation, over- or under-emphasis of certain situations, varying the stress on words etc. Consider two famous examples: “The Inspector said the Teacher was...
Concentrated attention The magic that makes an attractive painting out of individual colours is the concentrated attention the painter applies to it so that the different hues put together artistically produce the desired effect in the minds of the viewers. In a...
Kannada Films with Tulu backdrop Several Kannada films have effectively employed some of the dance forms of Tulu Nadu (Yakshagana dance-drama). One example is that of the familiar Huli Vesha (men wearing tiger masks, painting their bare bodies with stripes, etc., and...
Role of Culture “Culture plays a dominant role in grooming the artistic instincts of a person.” This well-known aphorism needs no explanation. Now a question arises: Does an ‘imported’ or ‘thrust’ culture have any influence on the native one and if so is it for the...
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