Re: 'Cultural items' programming at TANA meeting
Srikanth Bandi (srik@lig.di.epfl.ch)
Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:21:27 -0600
Jampala garu wrote:
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In all fairness to TANA, TANA does recognize the importance of
providing a forum for the classical and folk arts and other non-filmi
stuff. Over the last 20 years, TANA invited (and bore the expenses of)
many non-filmi artists from many fields and of many persuasions.
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I am sorry if I gave the impression of criticising what TANA is
doing or not doing. My point was that criticism of undue attention
awarded to film related events compared folk/classical
performances is unwarranted. I may be wrong, but I feel in all
likelihood sponsoring the latter is not possible without revenues
raised from the former. Thus, existence of film personalities
who otherwise could be non-entities with rare exceptions
is a 'necessary evil'?
-srikanth
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