mysuru the department of studies in films at the university of mysore uom has stated working on a movie to create awareness on the negative impact of social media on people and to educate its students on filmmaking the university along with nireeksha special school will produce a short movie titled elife with the theme where there is hope there is life the kannada movie is to sensitize youth on the impact of social networking on their lives students and professional filmmakers will work on the movie for which the shooting began in the campus on friday kannada actor niveditha will play the protagonist while mandya ramesh and tabala naani will don the supporting roles citybased music troupe nanu will compose the songs with shalom sannutha lending her voice to them folk music with a western touch is said to be the highlight of the music during the shooting technicians will educate the students on various aspects of moviemaking like handling camera direction and acting uom journalism professor b p mahesh chandra guru said that the movie helps them bring out talent of students besides spreading a word on the illeffects of social media it is also an attempt to create awareness on child abuse dowry aids etc he said todays youth are addicted to social media we need to wake them up before it is too late said praveen krupakar director of the movie and a guest faculty at the department of film studies according to a recent survey social media also contributes factors which can later become social evils he added children are being exposed to good and bad content through social media unwittingly they get drawn into them we want to educate youth to take only good content krupakar said interestingly the publicity team has opted for a social networking site to popularize the movie the team also wants to popularize and introduce areas in and around mysore which are not familiar to people appreciating the initiative of the team krishnaraja nagar mla s r mahesh said such programmes are the need of the hour