Film industry needs educated people: Kamal Hassan
By chennaivision at 14 February, 2009, 10:29 am
Chennai, Thespian Kamal Hassan today said the film industry needed more educated people and exhorted the students to take up a career in the film world after completing their studies.
Inaugurating ”Milan-2009”, a three-day national level cultural show organised by the SRM University at its campus in suburban Kattankulathur, the actor said the film industry needed educated people.
”It doesn’t mean that all of them should become actors. The advent of technology provides enormous opportunities for the students to take up career in the film world. The film industry offers so many positions for the students to pursue their career,” he added.
To drive home his point, Kamal admitted that he was a high school dropout and his father’s repeated efforts to make him study went in vain.
”An actor can be an IAS officer or a Ph.D also,” Kamal recalled his father’s words asking him to take up studies while pursuing his goal of becoming an actor.
”But that did not really happen,” he said and appealed to the students to finish their studies first and then take up a career in the film industry.
There was never a dull moment right through the one-hour long function and the decibel level at the over-crowded auditorium, which had about 7,000 students as against its capacity of 4,000, remained at the highest.
Each and every remark made by Kamal was greeted with raucous applause by the students from more than 60 colleges, who had gathered for the carnival from every nook and corner of the country.
UNI
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