Noted Film actor Shah Rukh Khan will be inaugurating the 42nd International Film Festival of India to be held in Goa from the 23rd of November to the 3rd of December.
The ten day festival will be spread across cultural locales like Kala Academy, Rabindra Bhawan and others and will bring the best of creative geniuses and celebrated Auteur to a common platform aimed at making the festival the best in world.
While the opening ceremony brings in the King of Bollywood, the closing ceremony will have the Southern Superstar Suriya best known for his super hit movies like ‘Perazhagan’, ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’ and ‘Rakht Charitra’ adding spice to the proceedings who will be joined in by international celebrities like eminent French filmmaker Luc Besson and International action super actress Michelle Yeoh.
This 42nd IFFI which is billed as the ‘festival of change’ seeks to bring in novelty into the concept of the festival and is a ‘work of transition’ in the words of the Festival Director, Shri Shankar Mohan, best illustrated by the association with acclaimed art director Thota Tharani who has designed the concept of this year’s festival.
With the world in mind, a step towards the global acceptability of the festival has been to bring in the biggest name in Bollywood today, Shah Rukh Khan who will flag off this ten day global cultural fiesta.
The actor acclaimed the world over for blockbuster movies like ‘Ra.One’, ‘Om Shanti Om’, ‘Don’ and others will grace the opening celebrations which will also include the screening of the Portuguese film ‘The Consul of Bordeaux’ directed by Francisco Manso and Joao Correa.
AIR Panaji correspondent B.V.Prabhugaonker reports The festival which will screen more than 100 movies from 65 countries and will have special packages like ‘Master Classes’ by renowned film personalities like Milcho Manchevski, Hugh Welchman, Laurence Kardish; a first of its kind package of 3D and animation movies; Retrospective of Luc Besson and Phil Noyce; a special package on ‘Soccer in Cinema’; country focus on USA; screening of Russian Classics and much more.
Apart from cinematic geniuses on show, in this 42nd International Film Festival of India expect luminaries like Luc Besson, Bertrand Tavernier, Michelle Yeoh, Laurance Kardish, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Dan Wolman and others along with glamour celebrities like Raima Sen, Dino Morea and Prem Chopra, to grace this movement of cinematic excellence.
