SKU unit to train rural youth to colour movies

The rural unemployed youth in drought-prone Anantapur district will get a chance at ‘colourful’ jobs, as renowned Goldstone Technologies and Trikona technologies under the aegis of Adi foundation jointly came forward to set up training units for the first time in the country in the Sri Krishnadevaraya University. Already, the companies have converted one of the all time favourite black and white Telugu movie Maya Bazar into colour also Mughal-e-Azam besides Nayadaur.
The Adi foundation programme director, Mr J.A. Chaudhary, said that 25 persons from rural areas would be selected under the pilot project, and training would be given to colour the negatives of black and white movies for a year.
He opined that 5,000 rural youth would be required to accomplish the movies conversion. The rural youth, who have completed Class X, and Intermediate fail students, are eligible to apply for jobs.
During the training, 50 Russian movies will be converted into colour along with other Telugu movies with about two lakh shades. Mr Chaudhary explained that conversion of Maya Bazar into colour gave impetus to film processing companies and created opportunities for creative multimedia students.
He said that the companies had also bought rights of 14 Telugu movies of Vijaya pictures of which 13 were in black and white, except one, and all the 13 movies will be converted to colour. The trained candidates will also be sent abroad for film negative conversions.