It is famous for being the location of Ninasam, a cultural organisation which contributes significantly in the areas of drama, films and publishing.
Films that were staged included those by masters like Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa.
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This group also started producing small plays and in the year 1949, they formed a cultural group Ninasam; the name dedicated to the native Hindu God of Heggodu, Nilakanteshwara.
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Ninasam (Kannada: ನೀನಾಸಂ) is a cultural organisation located in the village of Heggodu in Sagar Taluk of the Shivamogga district in the state of Karnataka, India.
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The seeds of Ninasam were laid in 1945 in Heggodu, when Subbanna and his friends started to get together in the evenings to exchange views and discuss about the politics and other current issues.
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After his graduation from Mysore University, Subbanna returned to Heggodu and started producing plays at Ninasam that included Kannada translations of works by Shakespeare, Molière and Brecht and also those of Kannada writers.
He has directed plays for National School of Drama (Repertory Company, NSD), Ninasam, Rangamandal-Bhopal, Rangayana and worked with many theatre organizations of India.
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NINASAM stands for Nilakanteshwara Natya Seva Sangha which is the brain child of the renowned dramatist, K. V. Subbanna.