Amitabh Bachchan to inaugurate Kolkata International Film Festival 2016

It’s that time of year when it is all about film festivals. The 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival 2016 will be inaugurated by megastar Amitabh Bachchan. The inaugural ceremony will be held on November 11 at Netaji Indoor Stadium.

On Tuesday, it was announced that Mr. Bachchan will once again grace the occasion. Other celebrities who will become the part of the festival are Jaya Bachchan, Kajol, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan, Sharmila Tagore and Moushumi Chatterjee. The film festival will showcase as many as 176 films by 137 directors from 61 countries. It will be screened across 12 venues.

KIFF director Yadab Mandal said in a press conference, “This year for the second time, the KIFF is a competitive event. The competition focuses on women filmmakers. The Royal Bengal trophy will be awarded to the best film (Rs.51 lakh) and the best director (Rs.21 lakh). The cash award for the best film is the single largest cash award at any international film festival now.”

As for Amitabh Bachchan, he is currently busy with the shooting of Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar 3. https://goo.gl/Jquthq

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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he feels privileged to be the face of an initiative by The Film Heritage Foundation and working towards saving cinematic marvels from getting lost with time.

Amitabh Bachchan and his wife Jaya Bachchan attended the ‘Film Preservation and Restoration School India 2015’ workshop organized by the Film Heritage Foundation in Mumbai,

"A FUNCTION TO ATTEND THE Film Heritage Foundation...a most sincere effort to archive all the films made through the years... most of our films have got destroyed or lost, due to no archival interest or work

"Congratulations FILM HERITAGE FOUNDATION... and thank you for making me the Brand Ambassador of this work...honoured and privileged," read a post on Big B's official page on social networking site Facebook.  

The event was held here Sunday.

The 72-year-old also shared photographs of the event on his official blog srbachchan.tumblr.com, saying that visuals tell a better story than words.

"Just the visuals tell a deep story...of a day well spent...of being made Ambassador for the Film Heritage Foundation and the Preservation of films," the "Paa" star posted on his blog.

Meanwhile, the screen icon is gearing up for the release of his films "Piku" and "Wazir".                                                 

Amitabh Bachchan attends Shatrughan Sinha’s son’s wedding

Salaamat Rahe Dostaana': Amitabh Bachchan attends Shatrughan Sinha’s son’s wedding

That the dynamics of relationships among the stalwarts of the Indian Film Industry keep changing is a thing of common knowledge; more so with the superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha who jointly ruled the silver screen in the 1970s. Having worked together in movies like ‘Kaala Patthar’, ‘Naseeb’, ‘Shaan’ and ‘Dostana’, the relations between Big B and Shotgun, as they are fondly called have always been soured. When asked about the history to such clashes, Shatrughan Sinha had said, “Jawaani thhi, josh thha, ego issues they.

But now the duo seems to have buried the hatchet and mended bridges. Amitabh Bachchan was seen attending Shatrughan Sinha’s son Kussh’s wedding in Mumbai on January 18 and an ecstatic Sonakshi Sinha took to Twitter to thank her ‘Amit Uncle’ and ‘Jaya Aunty’ for gracing the occasion. 

 

She captioned the pictures, “Salaamat rahe dostaana aapka! Thank u @SrBachchan uncle and jaya aunty for the warmth and happiness :)” 

In one, Amitabh Bachchan can be seen warmly greeting Shatrughan Sinha.

The second picture shows Sonakshi Sinha flanked by veteran actresses Jaya Bachchan, Hema Malini, Poonam Dhillon and Tina Ambani.  

 

Earlier, the Sinhas had returned the box of sweets sent to them by the Bachchans on the occasion of Abhishek and Aishwarya’s wedding in 2007. “Jab bulaaya nahin toh mitthaai kis baat ki?” Shatrughan Sinha was quoted saying. As a reply to this, Big B had said, “Those who were not invited were not friends in the first place.” 

The route back to friendship, however, started when last year when the Bachchans invited the Sinhas over to their grand Diwali bash and Shatrughan Sinha along with wife Poonam, daughter Sonakshi and sons Kussh and Luv attended the party. 

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Leader Movie Upcoming Movies

 What's the movie about Leader is the story of Master Vishmbharnath (Amitabh Bachchan) who happily lives with His Wife Kalyani (Jaya Bachchan) and son (Dinesh).

Leader Cast & Crew:

Banner
Pen N Camera International

Daxna Films
M.J. Production Pvt. Ltd

Status
Under Production
Release Date
2014
Genre
Social
Producer
Deepak Sawant

Star Cast
Amitabh Bachchan.... Master Vishmbharnath

Jaya Bachchan.... Kalyani

Dinesh Lal

Pakhi Hegde.... Ganga

Gulshan Grover.... MLA Tiwari

Story / Writers
Abhishek Chadda
Choreographers
Pappu Khanna
Publicity Pro
Parag Desai
Universal Communications
Censor Details:
Censor Dates
Not Available.
Censor Certificate No
Not Available.
Runtime
Not Available.
Certification
Not Available.
Reels
Not Available.
Length in metres
0.0

Co-Producer
Sarod
Pankhadi
Danveer

Music Director
Ekbal Darbar
Madhukar Anand
Gunwant Sen

Color
C

Language
Hindi

Director
Abhishek Chadda
Cinematography
Pramod Pandey

Production Designers
N P Yadav
Action
Tinu Verma

Shooting Location(City & Country)
India
Music Company
Lotus Music

Amitabh Bachchan inaugurates 20th KIFF 2014

 Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan  Tanuja, Irrfan Khan and Amol Palekar were came together on  Monday evening with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to inaugurate the 20th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF).

Keeping up with the tradition Big B inaugurated the ceremonial lamp like last last year in the presence of veterans from Bengali cinema at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata.

Shahrukh Khan who is also the Brand Ambassador of West Bengal graced the occasion with the Bachchan family. Amitabh Bachchan who has been shooting for Shoojit Sircar's Piku in the city tweeted:

Amitabh Bachchan        ✔ @SrBachchan

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T 1671 - KIFF .. Kolkata International Film Festival .. privileged to be a part of it .. a moving experience, of respect given and love !

8:32 PM - 10 Nov 2014