West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to international filmmakers worldwide to make their movies in Bengal and collaborate with native expertise, as she inaugurated the thirtieth version of the Kolkata Worldwide Movie Pageant (KIFF) on Wednesday.
“We wished to dedicate this 12 months’s pageant to our worldwide buddies… I humbly request all of you to please see that expertise in Bengal is sky-high. Please utilise them. Please depict the wonder and variety of Bengal in your movies, from the mountains to the Bay of Bengal,” the Chief Minister stated.
“Please present our nation via your cinema too. Generate employment for folks right here and encourage collaboration between your artists and ours,” she added.
The pageant opened with the screening of the 1966 Bengali basic ‘Galpo Holeo Satti‘ by Tapan Sinha, on the Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium in Kolkata.
Between December 5 and December 11, as many as 175 movies from 29 international locations might be screened throughout a number of venues within the metropolis as a part of the thirtieth KIFF. Movie lovers may attend screenings of 21 movies from France, KIFF’s focus nation this 12 months.
In her tackle on the KIFF inaugural ceremony, the Chief Minister additionally stated that Bengali movies might be celebrated alongside worldwide movies with equal fervour.
The inaugural ceremony noticed the presence of celebrities like Sourav Ganguly, Sabitri Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Ranjit Mullick, Shatrughan Sinha, Moon Moon Sen, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Deepankar De, and others.
Nonetheless, like final 12 months, KIFF regulars Shahrukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan gave the inaugural ceremony a miss this 12 months. “AmitabhJi is unwell,” the Chief Minister stated on the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, and Sonakshi Sinha, who had been current on the opening ceremony final 12 months, had been additionally absent this 12 months.
Via movie screenings, exhibitions and discussions, the thirtieth version of KIFF will even provide centenary tributes to famend movie personalities like Tapan Sinha, Marlon Brando, Marcello Mastroianni, Sergei Parajanov, Mohammed Rafi, Talat Mahmood, and others.
Outdated classics will even be screened as a part of the pageant’s particular tribute to Kumar Shahani, Manoj Mitra, Gautam Halder, Alain Delon, Anup Kumar Mukhopadhyay, and Utpalendu Chakraborty.
Among the movies from these two classes can be projected to the massive display screen straight from their unique celluloid.
“Cinema is a collective reminiscence of time. Within the coming days, we are going to witness this reminiscence with function movies, brief movies and documentaries from numerous international locations of the world,” famend filmmaker and chairperson of the thirtieth KIFF Goutam Ghose stated on Wednesday. “Alongside this, quite a few seminars, symposiums, and discussions will enrich our understanding.”
In the meantime, winners of the aggressive sections of the movie pageant are slated to be declared on December 11. Winners of various classes will take residence the Royal Bengal Tiger Trophy, the Hiralal Sen Memorial Trophy, and the NETPAC Award, together with prize cash.
Revealed – December 05, 2024 04:43 am IST
