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Shashi Kapoor to inaugurate IFFI-2006

Aparna Sen will be the chief guest at the concluding ceremony

NEW DELHI: Yesteryears' Bollywood star Shashi Kapoor will inaugurate the International Film Festival of India-2006 in Goa on November 23 where Richard Attenborough is being invited to attend the special screening of his much talked about film "Gandhi".

Noted actor-director Aparna Sen will be the chief guest at the concluding ceremony of the festival on December 3.

The announcement was made by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister P. R. Dasmunsi after receiving the report of the jury of the Indian Panorama for feature films and non-feature films here on Thursday.

He said that the special screening of "Gandhi" would coincide with the Centenary Year of the "satyagraha" launched by the Mahatma.

Twenty prominent feature films from various regional languages, including Rituparno Ghosh's "Dosar", will be screened at the festival.

The Indian Panorama section will open with "Missed Call" (English/Hindi) directed by Mridul Toolsidass and Vinay Subramanian, while the opening film of the non-feature section would be "And The World Remained Silent" directed by Ashok Pandit.

The feature films include five Malayalam movies, three Tamil and an equal number of Marathi movies as also two Bengali and two Hindi movies.

The juries, which gave their report to the I&B Minister have also recommended that the Tamil film "Sringaram" directed by Sharada Ramanathan and Sonam, a film directed by the upcoming filmmaker Ahsan Muzid in an Arunachali dialect, "Monpa", will represent India in the Asian, African and Latin American Competition section of the IFFI-2006.

An equal number of non-feature films have also been announced for the Indian Panorama, an integral part of IFFI. - PTI

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