· Day 3 presented an enviable mix of films, special screenings, shorts, top shorts, master classes and lots more!
· Audience Interacted with Manoj Bajpayee & Rajkummar Rao for Aligarh
· Day 3 attract huge audience for Monsoon Wedding, Aligarh & Sairat among others
Delhi, July 03, 2016: The 7th Jagran Film Festival on its Day 3 turned out to be a triple dose of movies, master classes and merriment. The vibe at Delhi’s Siri Fort Auditorium was infectious when cine buffs felt Spoilt for choices with a dose of regional, Indian and international cinema at India’s coveted and the largest travelling film festival, Jagran.
Like the previous two days, day 3 was nothing short of extraordinary. Line-up for the day opened on a good note with Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding under retrospective category. Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh received the great response from the audience and as a bonus they also had an opportunity to interact with film star cast in Manoj Bajpayee and Rajkummar Rao.
Off to a great start, film lovers juggled across auditoria screens to catch some of their choicest films such as Marathi Movie Namrat by Mahesh Manjrekar, Tanuja Chandra directed Silvat, Romanian film Discordia, another Marathi showcase Sairat, Meghna Gulzar’s Talvar, No Burqas Behind Bars under retrospective category.
In Jagran Shorts; 3 Colours (Dir Mozghan Taraneh, [Persian]), One Night Bang (Dir Keiya Ando [Japanese]), Winter’s Journey (Dir Susanne Boeing [German]), Horror Vacui (Dir Daniel Chamorro [Spaniash]), The Heatwave (Dir Alicia Albares [Eng. Span]), & Listener (Tarun Dudeja) were screened.
Other films that spread cinematic delights on Day 3
also included Toba Tek Singh by director Ketan Mehta, which was also the opening movie of the festival.
Talking about Jagran Film Festival Manoj Bajpayee said, that it’s a fantabulous concept of exposing cinema and generating audience across India. JFF provides such movies an opportunity to reach a larger audience, who can’t get to watch them at the cinema. I have been associated with Jagran Film Festival in the past as well and visited Indore for the festival last year. Aligarh’s journey has been a great one and it’s going to places we are receiving amazing response from the audience and it’s very satisfactory.
Young and Dashing Rajkummar Rao was very excited, talking about the festival he said, I have been associated with the festival for long, my movies included Shahid and others were screened here previously and I’m glad to be here with Aligarh being screened here.
Master class by Jff and Whistling woods conducted by Chaitanya Chinchlikar remained a buzz throughout the day with a Masterclass on Indian Film Media and Entertainment Industry. Another seminar of the day was on “Shorts Can Make You Big” by JFF and FICCI on the art and commerce of short films between Ajay Brahmatmaj, Rajkummar Rao and Manoj Bajpai.
Promising to present some of the finest works of cinematic geniuses, India’s largest travelling film festival, ‘Jagran’, features a notable selection of Indian and world cinema classics and contemporary films. Showcasing more than 100 feature and short films this year, Jagran Film Festival in its 7th edition is slated to be an eyeful treat for one and all.
Enthused by the response to this initiative by both the audiences and the filmmakers, the Festival in 2016, plans to travel an even greater distance. The Jagran Film Festival will start from Delhi, traveling through Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Agra, Meerut, Dehradun, Hisar, Ludhiana, Patna, Racnhi, Jamshedpur, Raipur, Indore, and Bhopal and finally culminated in Mumbai.