Shah Rukh Khan Inaugurates KIFF, Says 25th Year is an Important Landmark

Amid a galaxy of stars from Bollywood, Bengali cinema and foreign shores, megastar Shah Rukh Khan on Fri inaugurated the twenty-fifth Kolkata International festival at Netaji Indoor structure here.

Flanked by yesteryear’s prime heroine Rakhi Gulzar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and ‘thali girl’ Srabonti Chatterjee, SRK lit the ceremonial lamp to wild cheers from the audience, WHO later enjoyed as of the gap film – Satyajit Ray’s children’s classic “Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen”, that is celebrating its fiftieth year.

Germany’s laurels winning director Volker Schlondorff, “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” thespian Andie MacDowell, Slovak filmmaker Dusan Hanak graced the occasion, aboard Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, and BCCI President and former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly were among those that graced the perform.

SRK, in his speech, delineates the twenty-fifth year of the pageant as a crucial landmark.

“The twenty-fifth year is a crucial landmark, a crucial milestone for cinema not solely in the geographical area, however to the remainder of our country as a result of a number of the best cinema, a number of the shaping cinema of the Republic of India comes from geographical area and Kolkata,” he said.

Shah Rukh stepped in to inaugurate the gala within the absence of Amitabh Bachchan, WHO was originally scheduled to try to to the task, however, couldn't create it to the fest thanks to indisposition.

“Amitabhji comes here each time. however, he couldn't happen. Since last night he's unwell. therefore doctors have restricted his movements. he's suffering plenty since last night,” Banerjee same.

Speaking on the occasion, Schlondorff paid made tributes to laurels winning creative person Satyajit Ray, rating the “humanity” in his cinema so much above the intellectual approach of the New cinema movement in France and the Federal Republic of Germany.

The same Indian cinema ne'er lost track of the sensual, the visual and also the fantastic thing about our lives because it created a synthesis of concepts and ideas.

“One day in AN art house in Paris we tend to discovered Pather Panchali and also the whole Apu trio and every one of a unexpected we tend to discover that behind the facade of palaces ANd costumes there was an implausible humanity so much superior to our intellectual approach in France and the Federal Republic of Germany at the time of recent cinema,” he said.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape fame Yankee thespian Andie MacDowell entailed conserving Ray’s films for posterity.

Bhatt same it absolutely was time filmmakers realize their responsibility to ‘whip up’ hopes of a much better tomorrow, in a very state of affairs wherever the “structures all around the United States globally square measure collapsing.”

Also attending were Madhabi Mukherjee – acknowledged internationally for depicting the part in Satyajit Ray’s “Charulata”, actor MPs Nusrat Jahan, Mimi Chakraborty, Shatabdi Roy and adult female Adhikary besides film administrators Goutam Ghosh and Sandip Ray.

The program began with a picture of the history of cinema, followed by a brief promotional film on Bengal’s film locations created by Parambrata Chatterjee, before an absorbing song and dance presentation choreographed by Tanushree sitar player.

Later, Nusrat bestowed the twenty-fifth Kolkata International festival commemoration trophy to SRK, because the audience fierily clapped.

A bouquet of 214 options and 152 shorts and documentaries from seventy-six nations square measure on supply throughout the eight-day gala.