Kolkata: As award for Centenary Satyajit Ray, ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’ has been resolved as the first edition of the 27th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival.
Director of Shoejojit Sircar will provide a warning lecture Satyajit Ray and his recent film, ‘Sardar Udham’, starring Vicky Kaushal, will also be displayed as part of a special screening segment.
This segment will also filter out ‘The rapist’ of Aparna, starring Konkona Sen Sharma and Arjun Rampal and Raj Chakrabory ‘Dharmajuddha’, starring Swatilekha Sengupta, Ritwick Chakraborty, Subhashree Ganguly, Soham Chakraborty and Parno Mittra.
The Chakraborty film will be filtered as a tribute to Sengupta, who died this year.
‘Aranyer Din Ratri’, which was released in 1970, was nominated as the best film for the Golden Bear Award at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.
“A number of Ray films, including ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’, ‘Parash Pathar’, ‘Devi’ and ‘Mahanagar’, are considered for the opening.
But ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’ was chosen.
His favorite, our minister’s head personally wants it as the first film .
Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan and Shabana Azmi will attend the inauguration directly, “said a source.
Interestingly attractive contemporary work package, including Carlos Saura’s’ The King All World ‘, Pedro Almadovar’ Parallel Mother “and Asghar Farhadi ‘A Hero’, has lined up.
‘A hero’ not only shares the Grand Prix Award in Cannes this year but is also chosen as an Oscar 2022 competitor in the best international film part of Iran.
Film Finish Juho Kuosmanen, ‘Compartment No.
6′, who shared the Grand Prix in Cannes with ‘A Hero’, will be filtered.
It is among the 15 selected films competing for the best international feature films in Oscar.
Julia Ducourau ‘Titane’, Palme d’Or Palme’s Palme in Cannes, along with Leos Carax ‘Annette’ who won the best director’s award in Cannes, will be ready to be seen.
Interesting films competing in Cannes but did not win awards have also been programmed by KIFF.
It includes Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s’ Lingui, the Turkish film of the Sacred Ties and Semih Kaplanoglu, ‘Hasan’s commitment’.
“Nanni Moretti’s ‘Floors’ and Apichatpong wherahakul ‘memoria’, the first in Cannes 2021 will be filtered too,” added the source.
A big winning film in Venice and Berlin also headed for Kolkata.
Audrey Diwan ‘The Happening’, who won Golden Lion in Venice, along with Jane Campion ‘The Power of the Dog’, who won Silver Lion for the best director will be here.
Berlin’s Dénes Nagy’s ‘Light Natural’ who won the silver bear for the best director will also be filtered.