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Expert Committee on Upgradation of IFFI meets first time
Dec 23rd
The first meeting of the Expert Committee for up gradation of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) was held in New Delhi today. Sh Kamal Haasan was chosen to convene the next meeting of the experts to be able to give recommendations regarding up gradation of IFFI on lines of other reputed International Festivals and
Taiwanese Film ‘I can’t live without you’ Bags Golden Peacock
Dec 3rd
The Taiwanese film, ‘I Can’t Live Without You” has bagged the coveted Golden Peacock Award for the Best Film at the 40th International Film Festival of India 2009, while the Silver Peacock Award for the Best Director has gone to “A Brand New Life’, a film from South Korea, directed by Ounie Lecomte. ‘The Other
My actors always give me that little extra: Amol Palekar
Nov 30th
Amol Palekar, usually restrained and understated, was at his effusive best when he praised his actors for putting in extra efforts in his movies. ‘I find myself in a privileged position. May be I also goad, cajole or sometime scold but by the time film is complete we have such a beautiful bond. With completion
India is in my bones – Ben Kingsley
Nov 30th
India is home for me and one does not visit but come home, said Sir Ben Kingsley at a press conference at IFFI Goa today. He said that like a long lost melody or a forgotten perfume, the extraordinary welcome has assured him that the thread that was created in 1981-82 during filming of Gandhi
I have to be in love with story to make a film: Aniruddha
Nov 28th
It is your integrity, your love that reflects on the screen not any formula, said Director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury at IFFI Goa today. Aniruddha’s film Antaheen is part of Indian Panorama and he was addressing media along with the actors Rahul Bose, Mita Vasisht and Radhika Apte. ‘All my films are very real, these are
God destined me to be a film star: Asha Parekh
Nov 28th
It was yesterday once more at IFFI-Goa today where Asha Parekh went down the memory lane and a formal press conference turned into a collective re-living of the days gone by. A gracefully resplendent Asha said unassumingly ‘perhaps god destined me to be a film star and I worked to fulfill that destiny.’ That humility
40th IFFI 2009 begin today
Nov 23rd
The 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) – 2009 was inaugurated today in a star studded function held at Kala Academy, Panaji, Goa. The legendary Film Actress Waheeda Rehman inaugurated the Festival with the symbolic lighting of the lamp helped by actress Asin and Nana Patekar as special guests in the august presence of
Eight film being screened today on 2nd day for Press
Nov 22nd
As part of 40th International Film Festival of India – 2009 pre Festival screenings are being held today for the Press and Media. ‘When This Man Dies’, ‘The First Leap’, ‘Firaaq’, ‘Nanam Oru Penn’, ‘Haat, The Weekly Bazaar’, ‘Gabhricha Paus’, ‘What If’ and ‘Pasanga’ are being screened in Macquinez I. The synopses of these are
300 films during 11 days from 47 countries in IFFI-2009
Nov 22nd
International Film Festival of India (IFFI)-2009 will start in Kala Academy, Panaji, Goa on November 23, 2009. The Chinese historical drama “Wheat” has been chosen as the opening film. The film is set in 260 B.C when China was mired in a long and bloody war between the Qin and the Zhao that could not
