Mangaluru: Vishwa Konkani Centre President Basti Vaman Shenoy released the audio CD of Konkani movie, ‘Anthu’ at town hall in Mangaluru city on Friday.

Speaking after CD releasing Vaman Shenoy said that, the Konkani movies needs to be promoted by the members of Konkani community to produce good films depicting socio cultural aspects of Konkani community.

He also said, Konkani community members to produce quality movies in Konkani to achieve new milestones in the Konkani movie field. He congratulated the youths who produced the ‘Anthu’ movie and urged the Konkani community members to support the youths.

Writer Shrinivas Shenoy, Puttur, Om Ganesh Uppunda, Music Director B Athmaram Nayak Puttur and music director Harish Pandav Mysuru were felicitated on the occasion.

Om Ganesh Uppunda, Shrinivas Shenoy, Puttur have worked as lyricists for the movie whereas B Athmaram Nayak Puttur and Harish Pandav directed music for Anthu. Balachandra Prabhu, Ashwin Prabhu Mysuru, Varsha Bhat, Sneha Danivas have worked for the movie as playback singers.

Well-known personalities from Gowda Saraswat Brahmin (GSB) community including Mangalore Ganesh Beedi Works Director Jagannath Shenoy, Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy President RP Nayak, Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy Registrar B Deva Das Pai, DVK Group Shareholder Vedavyas Kamath and others attended the event.