Veteran actor Hema Malini and lyricist Prasoon Joshi will be honored with the ‘Indian Personality of the Year’ award at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), as the festival announced additional programming for the upcoming edition on Thursday.
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur announced that Malini and Joshi are the recipients of the ‘Indian Personality of the Year’ award for the year 2021. “Film actress Hema Malini and renowned lyricist Prasoon Joshi, both will be honored with Indian Personality of the Year at IFFI in Goa,” Thakur told reporters in Shimla on the sidelines of the All India Presiding Officers’ Conference.
Meanwhile, festival director Chaitanya Prasad announced that the opening ceremony of the 52nd edition will be hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar and actor Maniesh Paul. will include Bollywood Stars Salman Khan and Ranveer Singh, along with actors Riteish Deshmukh, Genelia Deshmukh, Shraddha Kapoor among others, said a press release.
Legendary filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Isteven Szabo will be honored with the first Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award. “Unfortunately, they will not be physically attending the festivities, but video messages of them accepting the award will be played,” Prasad said.
The festival will pay a special tribute to the late Sean Connery, the first actor to play the iconic character James Bond. The film festival will also honor prominent Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar as well as legendary actors Dilip Kumar, filmmakers Sumitra Bhave, Buddhadev Dasgupta, Kannada actor Sanchari Vijay and National Award winning actor Surekha Sikri.
The International segment at IFFI will include 148 films from around 73 countries. The festival will have around 12 world premieres, around seven international premieres, 26 Asia premieres and about 64 India premieres. A range of world renowned filmmakers, actors, technicians, critics, academics and film enthusiasts will come together to celebrate the art of cinema and filmmaking through various film screenings, presentations, masterclasses, panel discussions and seminars.
Streaming service Prime Video is bringing its upcoming title, Nushrat Bharucha-starrer “Chori” to the festival, setting the stage for the film’s world premiere on November 25.
The streaming service will also hold several masterclasses with the creators and cast of the critically acclaimed series “The Family Man” and Shoojit Sircar-directed film “Sardar Udham”.
“The Family Man” masterclass, which will take place on November 21, will be with producers Raj & DK, Aparna Purohit, Head India Originals at Amazon Prime Video, actors Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Manoj Bajpayee (virtually).
Based on the life of the revolutionary, the team behind “Sardar Udham”, a masterclass with Sarkar and producer Ronnie Lahiri is scheduled for November 23. The opening film for Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura’s “The King of All the Worlds”. The 52nd edition, while Asghar Farhadi’s “A Hero”, which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, will kick off the festival.
Filmmaker Jane Campion’s acclaimed film “Power of the Dog” starring Kirsten Dunst and Benedict Cumberbatch will be screened mid-fest. The Indian Panorama segment will begin with the screening of “Semkhor” (Dimasa, a dialect of Assam), directed by Amy Barua.
Major international titles to be screened at the festival include Julia DuCournau’s Palme d’Or-winning film “Titan”, which is among 11 films that will be screened under the Kaleidoscope section. The line-up also included Sean Baker’s “Red”. Rocket” and Pablo Lahren’s “Spencer”, starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, Juho Kuosmann’s “Compartment No. 6”, which won the Grand Pick Award at Cannes, and Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” Won the Best Actress trophy for Renate Reinsve.
“Titan” and “The Worst Person in the World” are being brought to IFFI by streaming service MUBI, which will also screen “Lamb” directed by Waldimar Johansson, starring Noomi Rapace and Tilda Swinton alongside filmmaker Epichatpong Veerasethkul” Memoriae”. ‘Lamb’ is one of the 55 international films that will be screened at IFFI under the World Panorama section.
The line-up also includes “Bergman Island”, “A Higher Law”, “Dark Matter” and “Humanization” directed by Mia Hansen Love. The 52nd edition of the International Film Festival of India is being organized by the Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in collaboration with the Government of Goa.
The nine-day film festival will be held in a hybrid format – virtual and physical – from November 20 to 28.
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