Less movie announcements on Ugadi

Sandalwood is facing many problems recently: recession, remakes, remuneration issues etc. All these are scaring�producers and keeping them away from making films. The newcomer producers are the ones�most affected by these issues. They find that times are bad to make an entry now.

The seriousness of the situation came to light recently when, unlike previous years, not many films were announced for Ugadi. One of the major films�announced is Shivarajkumar’s 1 father is more than�100 Schoolmasters produced by M. Manjunath.

Not losing heart at the failure of Veera Madhakari, Sudeep announced that he will be directing Dhandam Dashagunam for producer R. Shanker of Sri Chowdeshari Prasanna Movies, besides acting.�Krishnaiah is producing Preethse Preethse with�Yogish with direction byMadesh.