Srinagar, Jun 10
The seven-day 5th edition of ” Kashmir World Film Festival (KWFF)” from Wednesday has been postponed amid Coronavirus pandemic.
This decision was taken by the Management Committee in consultation with the members of ‘Advisory Board’ of KWFF, Festival Director Mushtaaque Ali Ahmad Khan told UNI.
He said the decision about the new dates for holding the ‘5th’ edition of KWFF will be taken in August or September 2020.
Mr Khan said, ”KWFF is the first Intellectual property of its kind and magnitude in Kashmir and since July 2017, we have successfully conducted ‘4’ editions of this festival.
”Our endeavour is to bring this festival in the list of top 10 film festivals of the world to empower the Kashmiri youth and film enthusiasts with film making knowledge for success in their careers and to empower the Kashmiri business fraternity with film production based tourism business”.
Mr Ali said, ”In our previous editions held in Srinagar, we have felicitated the film celebrities like Tabu, Madhur Bhandarkar, Rajit Kapur, Raju Ji Chadha, Rahul Mitra, Saeed Mirza, Govind Nihalani, Imam Siddiqui, Preeti Sapru, Arjuman Mughal, Rahul Bhat, Imran Khan, Ved Rahi, Sateesh Kaul, Vani Tripathi, and others.
”So far in our last four editions we received more than 460 films and out of those only 136 films were screened, that included films from 15 countries like, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Lebanon, Nepal, Poland, Spain, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey and USA. We also had participating films from different parts of India in different languages like Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Dogri, English, Guajarati, Gurung, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kuchi, Ladakhi, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Tibetan and Urdu”.
Some of the Classic and Popular films screened in different editions included the films like Do Bigha Zamin, Guide, Bajrangi Bhaijan, Dangal, Kabuliwala, Mainz Raat, Bicycle Thieves, Citizen Kane, Life is Beatiful, 12 Angrymen, Andaz, Shree 420, Beynd the clouds, Naya Daur, Parmany, Jagte Raho, and Laila Majnoon, Mr Ali said.