IFFI 2012 comes to an end sans Bollywood glam
30 Nov 2012 7:39 AM IST
The 43rd International film festival of India is coming to a close tomorrow with the screening of Mira Nair’s much-anticipated movie The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
The 10-day festival screened some of the best films from around the world, but what seemed to be missing were the big names from Bollywood.
The event was inaugurated by Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar but his presence of a mere 10-15 minutes left the audience disappointed and wanting more. Singer Kailash Kher’s lip-sync performance at the opening day was also another setback for the festival.
The highlight was Ang Lee’s Life of Pi and their star cast Irrfan Khan and Tabu.
Also present on Friday at the festival will be Indian American producer Ashok Amritraj, to whom a tribute is being paid at the festival.
Over a hundred movies across India and world cinema were screened and more than ten thousand delegates were present at the Festival.
Along with the premieres, the festival had Open Forums, Master classes and interactions with acclaimed directors like Jahnu Barua, Goutam Ghose, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Krzysztof Zanussi among others.
The Indian Panorama opened with Barua’s feature film Baandhon and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s non-feature film Celluloid Man.
There were twenty films in the feature section including films like Byari, Deool, Elar Char Adhyay and nineteen films in the non-feature section including And We Play On, Cotton For My Shroud and I am Micro.
Other segments of the festival were a tribute to ‘100 Years of Indian Cinema’, ‘FTII: Young at 50’, ‘Retrospective of Soumitra Chatterjee’, ‘Special Tribute to Girish Kasaravalli and Muzaffar Ali’ and ‘Vintage: A Tribute to the Masters’.
The world cinema section showcased movies in varied sections like Cinema of the World, International Competition, Sketches on Screen, Festival Kaleidoscope, etc.
The 10-day festival screened some of the best films from around the world, but what seemed to be missing were the big names from Bollywood.
The event was inaugurated by Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar but his presence of a mere 10-15 minutes left the audience disappointed and wanting more. Singer Kailash Kher’s lip-sync performance at the opening day was also another setback for the festival.
The highlight was Ang Lee’s Life of Pi and their star cast Irrfan Khan and Tabu.
Also present on Friday at the festival will be Indian American producer Ashok Amritraj, to whom a tribute is being paid at the festival.
Over a hundred movies across India and world cinema were screened and more than ten thousand delegates were present at the Festival.
Along with the premieres, the festival had Open Forums, Master classes and interactions with acclaimed directors like Jahnu Barua, Goutam Ghose, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Krzysztof Zanussi among others.
The Indian Panorama opened with Barua’s feature film Baandhon and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s non-feature film Celluloid Man.
There were twenty films in the feature section including films like Byari, Deool, Elar Char Adhyay and nineteen films in the non-feature section including And We Play On, Cotton For My Shroud and I am Micro.
Other segments of the festival were a tribute to ‘100 Years of Indian Cinema’, ‘FTII: Young at 50’, ‘Retrospective of Soumitra Chatterjee’, ‘Special Tribute to Girish Kasaravalli and Muzaffar Ali’ and ‘Vintage: A Tribute to the Masters’.
The world cinema section showcased movies in varied sections like Cinema of the World, International Competition, Sketches on Screen, Festival Kaleidoscope, etc.
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