Oh, I’ve been this way since I was a child. Apart from that, the entire industry and my fans have never let me down. My mother, father, brothers and friends have all supported me throughout. Then, eventually, when you had a dud, how did you react? So, I didn’t feel much of a failure for long. My first 35-40 films have all been successful. The eighth film was a little less successful. My first three films were big hits, and the fourth was an ordinary hit.
In the beginning, I hardly had a flop (he laughs). Were you always this way? Since your times with Anand ? Despite that people haven’t left me, my fans haven’t abandoned me. When a film is a hit, I feel happy and share it with people. But I make an effort to explore why the film flopped. Jogi’s new book FACEBOOK.Naturally, when a film flops, I feel disappointed. (PRATHIBHA NANDAKUMAR Poet, writer, playwright and documentary filmmaker) If you want to be among the first to know what he has come up with this time, be at the Indian Institute of World Culture on Sunday at 10.30 am. It has raised expectations like few books have in recent times. You can call them stories that are not stories,” he says. This Sunday, his new book FACEBOOK.COM/Manasa Joshi (publisher: Ankita Pustaka) is being released. Literary appreciation is fast becoming a rare thing.” When did you last read an in depth analysis of a book? Forget analytical writing, there are no introductions to a book. “They write about the book launch, but never about the contents of the book. Even the write-ups one sees in newspapers and magazines are typically journalistic in nature. Earlier, writers used to read, write and discuss other writers. Each one is engrossed in his or her own world. “I am a fan of poetry but not a poet,” he says with a smile.Īsk him what ails the current Kannada literary scene, he is quick to point out that “nobody reads the works of others. Jogi has written novels, short stories, scripts and various columns, but what about poems? I returned to the world of the written words where I feel at home.” I felt I was not needed there and immediately quit. “The visual media does not need a writer. When Jogi switched from writing to the visual media, everybody thought that he would create wonders in that field too. His story Kada Beladingalu was made into a film by Lingadevaru and got the state award for best story and screenplay. I always feel Jogi understands contemporary women better than anybody else, at least in Kannada. His stories create a warm world in the minds of the readers and his characters seem familiar.
JOGI KANNADA BOOKS TV
Starting with Yashwanth Chital’s Shikari, the then most popular Guptagamini and Preeti Illada Mele, he brought in a fresh outlook to TV serials. He has written the story, screenplay and dialogues for 12 daily soaps for Kannada TV channels. His eye for the extraordinary has never failed him. Jogi turned the dull and dreary content of supplements to trendy, crisp, contemporary and introduced many new talents, which brought in new readers. The way Jogi, and his colleague/friend Udaya Marakini, brought about a change in Sunday supplements is fit for analysis. My column in a popular weekly gets posted in several portals. My blog Jogi Mane (which has now become jogeemane) has a good number of loyal readers. “Maybe because most of my columns are picked up and republished or the link is given in other blogs as well. “Despite penning only six novels, six collections of short stories and nine collections of column writings, which is not a huge number, people have this feeling that I write a lot. He is described as a ‘writing machine’ though he has published only 22 books, unlike some of the ‘pop’ writers who publish ‘a novel a month’ and still remain unread. There is something about Jogi that makes him stand out among his colleagues, many of them hungry for fame, in the current Kannada scene. Hence, readers (also writers) extend unconditional love and affection to him. Ever wondered why some writers have a large fan following and some don’t? Ask Girish Rao Hatwar, who writes under the pen name Jogi and is one of the most read contemporary writers, and he shrugs with a ‘I don’t know’ look.īut his contribution to the Kannada literary world is indisputably among those of the greatest significance in recent times.
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