Press Release l 52nd IFFI to pay homage to stalwarts of Indian cinema

The 52nd International Film Festival of India, which is scheduled to take-off tomorrow, November 20, 2021, will pay homage to the stalwarts of Indian cinema whom the film industry lost in the recent past. The festival will celebrate their life and work by screening their noted 

Legendary  actor Dilip Kumar’s Devdas, director Buddhadeb Das Gupta’s Kaalpurush , actress Surekha Sikri’s Badhaai Ho will  be screened at the festival under the homage section .

Apart from this, IFFI is paying homage to prominent Kannada film actors Puneet Rajkumar, Sanchari Vijay and Malayalam actor Nedumudi Venu by screening their films Raajakumara, Naanu Avanalla...Avalu and Maargam respectively.

The festival will also screen the movie Vaastupurush as a homage to director Sumitra Bhave and film editor Waman Bhonsle.

The details of the screenings are as follows: 

S.No.

FILM TITLE

DIRECTOR/ PERSONALITY

YEAR

LANGUAGE

COL/B&W

FILM DURATION

HOMAGES

           

1

Kaalpurush

Homage_Shri. Buddhadeb Das Gupta (Director)

2005

Bengali

Colour

120 min.

2

Devdas

Homage_Shri. Dilip Kumar (Actor)

1955

Hindi

B&W

2h 35 min.

3

Maargam

Homage_Shri Nedumudi Venu (Actor)

2003

Malayalam

Colour

1h 48min.

4

Raajakumara

Homage_Shri Puneeth Rajkumar (Actor)

2017

Kannada

Colour

2h 28 min

5

Naanu Avanalla...Avalu

Homage_Shri. Sanchari Vijay (Actor)

2015

Kannada

Colour

1h 55 min.

6

Vaastupurush

Homage_Ms. Sumitra Bhave (Director)

2002

Marathi

Colour

154 min.

7

Badhai Ho

Homage_Ms. Surekha Sikri (Actress)

2018

Hindi

Colour

2h 3 min.

8

Vaastupurush

Homage_Waman Bhonsle (Film Editor)