and meeting friends then he spends two hours with the kids before retiring she saysboth children say their father is more than a friend sameer who completed his engineering worked with volvo for a year and quit to prepare for the civil services sandhya is studying journalism and psychology in christ college sameer feels his best moments in life were spent in the himalayas where he went trekking with his father when he was just 14 ill carry the memory for a lifetime with my fathers camera i took up photography also he has always supported me he addskuchanna srinivas was against admitting his children in hostels we grew up in a joint family and i did not want my children to grow up elsewhere sameer studied wherever i worked and one year i was transferred thrice and he had to change school as many times but sandhya has studied in bangalore throughout he addsinterestingly kuchanna made sandhya study in kannada medium till middle school when he was dig in mangalore sandhya went to the neighbourhood anganawadi and was comfortable in kannada when they returned to bangalore he admitted her to stella marys convent but kannada medium she may not have a great accent in english but she is good in studies and in communicating with people he saysdreams and interests kuchanna grew up in a multilingual society in his village while one halfspoke urdu the other majority including his family spoke telugu the remaining people spoke kannada in high school srinivas took an oath that he would not watch any movie other than kannada i think i was influenced by kannada literature my friend narayanaswamy and i would climb a tree near the ib and dream about making a kannada movie he reminiscesthe friendship continued even after kuchanna srinivas became an officer they revived this dream and in 1988 and made a movie called madhumasa it ran for 50 days but the producer incurred a loss he smiles later he wrote scripts for movies whenever he was free posted as vigilance officer at hmt he got a lot of time and wrote a script for samagama a television serial he gave up when it got strenuouskuchanna is a selfprofessed connoisseur of art movies earlier they used to make art movies out of passion now it has become a fashion he quips in the 70s he watched movies of giants like satyajit ray mrinal sen ritwik ghatak adoor gopalakrishnan b v karanth and others language was no barrier i wanted to watch good movies he says today he likes light stuff with an inclination for aamir khans flicks when in national college he was a regular to fort high school music festivals there he developed a liking for music and today has a great fascination for hindustani strains interestingly his house does not have a music system a voracious reader language or subject has never been a barrier for him be it light short stories or nonfiction science he reads