The Indian Panorama at the 42nd International Film Festival will open today with the screening of Malayalam film ‘Urumi’. It will also host Indian movies like “Ranjana Ami Ar Asbo Na’, ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’.

A jury headed by Sai Paranjpye has chosen 24 feature films for this section. IFFI Goa 2011 features a rich sampling of Indian Cinema in the feature film section.

Urumi, a Malayalam film directed by Santosh Sivan is set in the backdrop of the fierce warrior clans of Northern Kerala in the sixteenth century and focuses on the cult of a hero Chirakkal Kelu Nayanar played by Prithviraj- a man with an epic mission. His target and mission is Dom Vasco da Gama, the Viceroy of Portuguese Empire in India.

The film is spread between the second and third visit of Gama to India and chronicles events surrounding a conspiracy to kill Vasco da Gama in AD 1524.