MUMBAI: The second Chandigarh Film Festival is to be held from Feb 1-4 at 4 different venues in the city.
Movie buffs can watch Bollywood films, children films and critically acclaimed international films.
Movies, which have been shot in and around the city, will have a special place in the event to be organised jointly by the Chandigarh administration and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
Bollywood will offer a mix bag of commercially successful and critically acclaimed movies. Chak De! India, Mr and Mrs Iyer, The Blue Umbrella, Dil Chahta Hai, Bhumika, Junoon, Zubeida, Garam Hawa, Corporate, Traffic Signal and Page 3 have made it to the list.
The participating Indian film personalities would include directors Shyam Benegal, M.S. Sathyu, Madhur Bhandarkar, Pammi Somal and Anil Sharma, actors Hema Malini, Sohail Khan and Nausheed as well as Children‘s Film Society of India chairperson Nafisa Ali.
The selection of children‘s films includes Gilli Gilli Atta, Heda Hoda, Chutkan Ki Mahabharata and Chakkad Bakkad Bumbi Bo.
Relatives, The Eighth Day of the Week and Guarded Secrets from Hunagry, Twilight and Avinar from Iran, By the Pricking of My Thumb (France), What Is a Man Without a Moustache (Croatia) and Other Side of the Bridge (Austria) will vie for catching eyeballs during the festival which aspires to become an annual event with its second edition.
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