14th Mumbai Film Festival
ENTERTAINMENT
Day 2 at the 14th Mumbai Film Festival
ensues with fervor
Shahana Goswami with Milind Soman
Mumbai,
October 19, 2012: - Following a grand ceremony and consequent
celebrations to mark the commencement of the eight-day long cinematic
extravaganza, the
second day of the 14th Film Festival, presented by Reliance Entertainment and American Express and
organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image began with an army of ardent
cinephiles eagerly awaiting the screening of the day’s first film.
Novelist Shobhaa De looks stylish as ever.
A press conference was
convened to showcase Shahid, a film
based on the remarkable life, career trajectory and murder of human rights activist
and lawyer Shahid Azmi by noted filmmaker Hansal
Mehta. The film traces Shahid’s life
from attempting to become a terrorist, being wrongly imprisoned under a draconian
anti-terrorism law to becoming a criminal lawyer and unlikely messiah for human
rights while following the rise of communal violence in India. Also in
attendance were the films lead actors Raj Kumar Yadav and Prabhleen Sandhu who have essayed the roles
of Shahid Azmi and Mariam.
“I had been looking for a new story for a
very long time until I came across a man whose life fascinated me”, said Hansal Mehta”, I look at the platform
of the 14th Mumbai Film Festival as the ideal platform to launch this film and
hope that it provides the public with a different point of view into the life
of a misrepresented and disenfranchised human being”.
The afternoon segment titled Who is the Producer of the film? was
an open forum interaction that witnessed a panel discussion that featured
illustrious participants such as producer extraordinaire Shrishti Arya Bhel, Guneet Monga (Gangs
of Wasseypur) and Vijay Singh, CEO
at Fox Star Studios who explained the evolution in the role of a film producer
in Indian cinema, seasoned film producer Julian Alcantara who provided an insightful perspective of the
methodology of film production in the west and film director Vikramaditya Motwane who lent the
discussion inputs with a creative inclination.
Aficionados of cinema were presented with an opportunity to enjoy
stellar works of cinematic genius with movies including On
The Road by
Walter Salles , Beasts of the Southern
Wild by Benh Zeitlin, acclaimed filmmaker Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D, legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s Charulata, Captive by ace Filipino film director Brillante Mendoza, The Taste of Money by critically
acclaimed Korean director IM Sang-Soo as well as works by local filmmakers such
as director Nitin Kakkar’s Filmistaan.
Spotted among the attendees were prominent personalities such as Shyam Benegal, Kiran Rao, Ila Arun, Ranvir Shorey ,Dev Benegal and Satish
Kaushik.
The forthcoming days at the festival will host special event segments dedicated to French,
Italian and Afghan cinema as well as silent films accompanied by a live
orchestra, and offer attendees with an
opportunity to be audience to panel discussions and participate in workshops
conducted at the National Centre for the Performing Arts
(NCPA) by eminent cinematic personalities
from around the globe.
The 14th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival is scheduled
from the 18th – 25th October, 2012
at National Centre for the Performing
Arts (NCPA) & Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty
Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and
Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
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