Panaji, 19 November 2021

 

The 52nd International Film Festival of India, which is scheduled to take-off tomorrow, November 20, 2021, will pay homage to the stalwarts of Indian cinema whom the film industry lost in the recent past. The festival will celebrate their life and work by screening their noted films.

Legendary  actor Dilip Kumar’s Devdas, director Buddhadeb Das Gupta’s Kaalpurush , actress Surekha Sikri’s Badhaai Ho will  be screened at the festival under the homage section .

Apart from this, IFFI is paying homage to prominent Kannada film actors Puneet Rajkumar, Sanchari Vijay and Malayalam actor Nedumudi Venu by screening their films Raajakumara, Naanu Avanalla...Avalu and Maargam respectively.

The festival will also screen the movie Vaastupurush as a homage to director Sumitra Bhave and film editor Waman Bhonsle.

The details of the screenings are as follows: 

S.No.	FILM TITLE	DIRECTOR/ PERSONALITY	YEAR	LANGUAGE	COL/B&W	FILM DURATION
HOMAGES
1	Kaalpurush	Homage_Shri. Buddhadeb Das Gupta (Director)	2005	Bengali	Colour	120 min.
2	Devdas	Homage_Shri. Dilip Kumar (Actor)	1955	Hindi	B&W	2h 35 min.
3	Maargam	Homage_Shri Nedumudi Venu (Actor)	2003	Malayalam	Colour	1h 48min.
4	Raajakumara	Homage_Shri Puneeth Rajkumar (Actor)	2017	Kannada	Colour	2h 28 min
5	Naanu Avanalla...Avalu	Homage_Shri. Sanchari Vijay (Actor)	2015	Kannada	Colour	1h 55 min.
6	Vaastupurush	Homage_Ms. Sumitra Bhave (Director)	2002	Marathi	Colour	154 min.
7	Badhai Ho	Homage_Ms. Surekha Sikri (Actress)	2018	Hindi	Colour	2h 3 min.
8	Vaastupurush	Homage_Waman Bhonsle (Film Editor)

 

   

  

   

 

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