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While I was growing up with rotis and films as my staple diet, three brilliant films etched themselves in my mind. They are kalyug, Ardh satya, and Shankarabharanam . They were, are and will remain masterpieces.

During our college days,my friends and I would engage in a lot of discussions and intellectual talks about every film we saw and specially these three films. One of the puzzles was solved by Ramu, thanks to his blog. He managed to get it out, straight from the horse’s mouth… Govind Nihalani himself, who said that, Ardh Satya was a story of father and son relationship and not about cops.

The second one is about the conclusion in Kalyug. I would like to watch it again to know what i feel about it now. The last time I saw Kalyug was 13 years ago. I would really like to chat up with …

K.Balachander did it once!

K.Vishwanath did it twice!!

And now, after 18 long years, like the exiled Pandavas who won their kingdom back, the Telugu moviedom regained its pride, thanks to this one man who dared to hope… K.Sathyanarayana or Satish Kasetty as he’s better known.

Satish’s debut movie Hope has been adjudged the Best Feature Film on Social issues by the 54th National Awards Jury — Satish received his first National Award on 2nd September from the President of India.

A real life incident conveyed by his daughter, a student, inspired him so much that the passionate movie maker lurking inside him wanted to jump out and make a feature about it right away. He however worked on the subject for another year and a half: 18 long months.

Unwaveringly confident and totally committed, Satish, if asked during the course of …