39th International Film Festival of India kicks off
The 39th International Film Festival of India kicked off on Saturday with the local authorities for the first time putting in place closed-circuit TV surveillance. Rekha assisted by Telugu heart-throb Illeana d'cruz lit the traditional lamp
To set the mood of the festival and more so to break the sombre mood; Dr Sidhu cracked a joke with a rather funny anecdote. He recalled how way back in 1969, he asked Jeetendra rather innocently about the well-being of his ’brother’ Dharmendra! To which Jeetendra retorted, “Sidhdhu saab it seems you don’t watch films.”
The opening ceremony also saw Goa chief minister Digambar Kamath, union minister of state for information and broadcasting and external affairs Anand Sharma, I&B secretary Sushma Singh and chief secretary of Goa JP Singh at the event.
The 10 day long festival will have a few firsts this time around. Speaking exclusively to merinews.com, Manish Desai from PIB said, “This year we have IFFITV that is we are telecasting live the entire action taking place at the IFFI. There are 12 closed circuit television sets (CCTV) to capture the activities right from Kala Academy to INOX. The second initiative, which has been asked for time and again is the introduction of short film segment - where the film-makers can showcase, buyers can buy and funders can take up shots or short-films for funding.”
Though the writer found that the mood of the festival was subdued (may be owing to the countless security checks patrons are subjected to), the officials of ESG were confident that the mood will eventually pick-up.
Tara, a film-student said, “I am really looking forward to the section with films from Russia. I feel the subject-matter of Russian films are very true to life and the actors really know to act rather than trying to act.”
Sure, these 10 days will throw up very many new insights for film-makers as well as cinema-lovers alike.
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