SRM News: Milan 09

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gTH9JxOKYIMfIn3TskkeXod6sJK0pel6oBaUV3fnnRCxFHp44wMp3pRFxSNIByG39eTjCyeJMF2-lDuiS_rsYYN2_yOeGz6prMMz_DHpLfyau7a95YciVdfouLrjIZRzSGtah5g0N9U/s1600-h/DSC_0111.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307080873299120706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gTH9JxOKYIMfIn3TskkeXod6sJK0pel6oBaUV3fnnRCxFHp44wMp3pRFxSNIByG39eTjCyeJMF2-lDuiS_rsYYN2_yOeGz6prMMz_DHpLfyau7a95YciVdfouLrjIZRzSGtah5g0N9U/s320/DSC_0111.JPG" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a><br /><div>Actor Kamal Hassan has appealed to the educated youth to join the entertainment industry as it needed more of them now than before.<br />Speaking at the inaugural function of Milan 09, an annual national level inter-college cultural extravaganza, at SRM University on Friday, the actor added that they should look at joining the film world only after completing their studies.<br />“There are a lot of engineers and doctors and the entertainment industry now needs educated young people,” he said.<br />It did not mean that all of them should end up becoming only actors.<br />He pointed out that use of technology offers enormous potential for students keen on taking up a satisfying career in the film industry. “It offers many positions for students to pursue their career,” Mr. Kamal Hassan said.<br />Addressing several thousand students from across the country who had converged at the auditorium, he recalled that he himself had not completed school. “Some people call me a scientist. But I am a high school dropout,” he said as the audience burst into peels of laughter and applause.<br />His father repeatedly exhorted him to take up studies and to pursue a Ph.D even while being an actor. “I told him that I will do Ph.D someday, but it has never come,” he said, adding that an actor could be an IAS officer or a doctorate too.<br />Mr. Kamal Hassan made it clear that students should complete their studies</div>

Milan 09

Actor Kamal Hassan has appealed to the educated youth to join the entertainment industry as it needed more of them now than before. Speaking...