Dhurandhar and Ramayana to feature at IFFI leading Indian Panorama, BRICS segments
Here's the latest update from the Bollywood world:
The Indian Panorama section of the 57th edition of the International Movie Festival of India will open with the popular Bollywood movie Dhurandhar , while the special focus on films from BRICS countries will open with the of late rolled out Indian movie Ramayana .
Adding to this, Ranveer Singh in a still from Dhurandhar (left); Ranbir Kapoor as Lord Rama in Ramayana (right). Addressing a press conference, NFDC Managing Director, NFDC Dhiraj Singh shared that the programming committee and juries selected the films to lead their respective sections. “Dhurandhar will be the opening movie of the Indian Panorama’s feature movie section and ‘Becoming’ (a Ladakhi movie), will open the non feature movie section,” Singh shared.
Meanwhile, The Indian Panorama Section is one of IFFI’s flagship sections and includes the best of Indian cinema, with a special focus on films outside the mainstream and from regional languages and cultures otherwise hidden from the mainstream.
Notably, The section includes 25 feature length films and 20 non-feature films.
As per the latest buzz, According to Ashutosh Gowarikar who has been appointed festival director, this year’s festival will be held on the theme: ‘Stories without borders.’
In further updates, “Borders today are not only lines on a map, they are also habits. A story is one of the few things that can cross such a line without a passport. The distance shrinks. That is what cinema does best and that is the thought behind our theme. Today, it has become very easy to stay within our circle, our language, our own screen and our own point of view,” Gowarikar shared.
On top of that, The festival, which runs from November 20 to 28, begins with Fatherland, a 2026 Polish language biographical movie directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and will conclude with We are all Strangers from Singapore.
The festival received 1900 entries from 137 countries for selection and will ultimately showcase 159 international films from a total of 87 countries and 76 Indian films in 18 different languages.
Source: Hindustan Times