To explore his interests in other cultural areas, Subbanna started a publishing house called Akshara Prakashana in 1958 to publish works in Kannada mainly in the areas of film arts, children’s literature and play-scripts. Some of the works published included those by B. V. Karanth and U. R. Ananthamurthy. Since 1987, Ninasam has been coming out with a quarterly house journal. Having explored the areas of theatre and publishing, Subbanna wanted to explore the cinema world and attended a film appreciation course in 1967 at Pune. On his return he decided to start screening films at Ninasam and started Ninasam Chitrasamaja.
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