Rishi Kapoor glams up 8th Jagran Film Festival opening in Delhi
The gala event was held in the heart of South Delhi at Sri Fort
Auditorium in presence of acclaimed actors, dignitaries, filmmakers, and cinema lovers.
The occasion of ‘lighting the lamp’ and ‘cutting the ribbon’ was done in the company of Bollywood personalities including Rishi Kapoor, Director and Producer pair - Anand Surapur and Punit Desai and the Jagran official team.
During the ceremony, Rishi Kapoor followed by Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, director and producer of The Fakir of Venice, and later, the Morocco Ambassador expressed their views on the Jagran Film Festival as a great initiative to bond people for the love of cinema.
The one-of-its-kind event saw a screening of new and bold narratives, including the special screening of ‘Fakir of Venice’ and the mega trailer launch of the most anticipated film of the year ‘Mom’, which opens in cinema this week.
The critically acclaimed Director and Producer pair- Anand Surapur and Punit Desai were present at the festival for the first screening of ‘The Fakir of Venice’. Day 1 also saw the screening of popular Bollywood films including Hindi Medium, Naam Shabana, and the rare European titles-Purple Horizons and Horses of God.
Jagran Film Festival began in 2009 and today it is marked as India’s only Traveling Film Festival, executed in a way to transcend cultural and geographical boundaries of India and unite them for the love of cinema.
Jagran Film Festival has gained immense popularity and each year it attempts to present a treat for cinema lovers by showing unique and popular movies during the show.
Basant Rathore, Senior Vice President, Jagran Prakashan said, “I am elated to be a part of the 8th edition of the Jagran Film Festival which is truly India’s only Traveling Film Festival. We have successfully presented a series of local and international film screenings every year, and the fact that many leading personalities of Bollywood embrace the occasion every year to share their passion, views and further engage with cinema, is a testimony to the fact that how much they love this distinguished platform."
.jpg)
On the screening list are famous movies including Hindi titles like Agneepath, Pink, Shivaay, and MS Dhoni: The Untold Story to share few names. Popular English movies such as The Social Network and Black Cat to other foreign language movies like BRAVO VIRTUOSO and The Letter Box will be played across the different venues (of Jagran Film Festival) in India in 2017.
The Kingdom of Morocco is the ‘Country Focus’ partner at the festival in 2017. This fresh association means a bunch of ten Moroccan feature retreat for cinema-lovers in the 16 cities of India.
Some prominent sections of the Festival are World Panorama, Indian Showcase, Jagran Shorts, Jagran Discovery, Country Focus and the Retrospective of films. The 2017 edition of Jagran Film Festival will traverse from Delhi to the Indian hinterlands of Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Dehradun, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bhopal, Indore, Hisar, Ludhiana, Meerut, Raipur, and culminate in Mumbai.
Dates: Saturday, 1st July’2017 – Wednesday, 5th July’2017
Venue: Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi
Time: 10.00 am onwards
Registrations: www.jff.co.in
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
