This time editor and publisher of 'Cinema and TV Directory' MG Lingaraj has come out in English language. It is a four hundred pages directory that has 50 sections plus 120 pages of advertisements that support the directory economically. MG Lingaraj has taken four months to rehash his fifth edition to English edition and it is priced at Rs.500. It is not available in book stalls.

PRO of over 200 films MG Lingaraj 6th edition of Cinema and TV Directory was released by CP Yogishwar, Karnataka state Forest Minister. Producers Sa Ra Govindu, Soorappa Babu, director MS Ramesh, journalist Ganesh Kasargod, actress Roopika and Gowri-Ganesha chit funds Lokesh Reddy were there to release Film and TV directory. MG Lingaraj, his wife Prema Lingaraju and son Chakravarthy joined the directory release event.

I am now in the political field from cinema acting and production. I have only contact now in cinema that MG Lingaraj my friend in the last 20 plus years. The Kannada cinema industry can make use of my position for the progress of the Kannada cinema industry stated the forest minister CP Yogishwar.

MG Lingaraj in his speech recounted the difficulties he underwent in the last four months in bringing this English edition of Cinema and TV Directory. It is like making a film for me stated Lingaraj giving funny incidents he met in the process of his much cherished directory.

The key sponsor of the directory Lokesh Reddy urged the 8000 artists and technicians of Kannada cinema and television to make use of the directory. At least 50 percent of them buy this directory it is a feel good factor he says.