Mumbai, 13 September 2021

 

To mark historic occasion of 14 September 1949, when Hindi was adopted as the official language of the Republic of India, Films Division will celebrate Hindi Divas-2021 by organising online film festival and various other competitions. Online Film Festival "Hindi: Bharat Ki Vani" will be screened on Films Division's website https://filmsdivision.org/ and YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/FilmsDivision on 14th and 15th September, 2021.

As part of Hindi Divas Celebration -2021, Films Division is observing Hindi Pakhwada from 1st September, 2021 to 15th September, 2021 to promote use of practical Hindi in official work. To encourage the officers and officials for working in Hindi, various competitions were organized. Dictation, essay writing, elocution competitions, quiz competition, were amongst the few.

 

Films being screened at online film festival "Hindi : Bharat Ki Vani" are:

14 September, 1949 (17 Min./ 1991/ Muzhir Rehman)

Bharat Ki Vani (52 Min./ 1990/ C.S. Nair),

Hindi Ke Badhate Kadam (13 Min./2021/R. Ravi)

 

Along with these, documentaries on great personalities from Hindi Literature such as the popular novelist Premchand, the father of modern Hindi literature- Bharatendu Harishchandra, Rashtrakavi Maithili Sharan Gupta, the great writer and poet Jai Shankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, Gopaldas Neeraj and on famous writer and editor Acharya Shivpoojan Sahay, will be streamed during the two-day online film festival.

All the films will be streamed on https://filmsdivision.org/‘Documentary of the Week’ section and also on FD’s YouTube channel on 14-15 September 2021 for 48 hours.

 

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