Indian Film Awards: 11th Mumbai Festival Fest

Mumbai is all set to boom with the 11th Mumbai Film Festival to be held from October 29 to Nov 5 2009. The grand event is organized by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image.

In the inaugural function of the Festival on October 29, Shashi Kapoor will receive the Indian lifetime achievement award. Shashi Kapoor is Indian film actor and producer who is remembered for his movies Deewar, Do Aur Do Paanch and Namak Halaal.

Another talented film maker to be awarded will be Greek film-maker Theo Angelopoulos who will be presented international lifetime award in closing ceremony on November 5.

The Mumbai festival was first organized in 2005 with the motive of developing a community festival of Mumbai. It is public private partnership under which NGO’s, Private parties, Government and related Authorities work collectively.

11th Mumbai Festival Fest

Veteran actor Shashi Kapoor, who enthralled cinegoers with his performances in blockbusters like “Deewar” and “Namak Halal”, will be honoured with the lifetime achievement award at the 11th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) to be held between Oct 29-Nov 5 along with Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos.




Shashi Kapoor, who started his career as a child artist with his brother’s film “Awara”, went on to feature in movies like “Kala Patthar”, “Kabhi Kabhie”, “Shaan” and “Trishul”. He also produced
critically acclaimed movies like “Junoon”, “Kalyug”, “36 Chowringhee Lane”, “Vijeta”, and “Utsav”.

The film festival is an initiative by Reliance Big Entertainment and is being organized by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI).Renowned filmmaker Shyam Benegal is the chairperson of MAMI and he made these announcements.

This year the MFF will also organise an exhibition to commemorate and celebrate 60 years of evergreen actor Dev Anand’s production house Navketan Films. A retrospective from Navketan will be screened to mark the occasion.

Divided into five sections — International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors, World Cinema, Indian Showcase, Dimensions Mumbai and Retrospectives, the festival offers something to every film buff.

The festival will have a five member international jury including the likes of celebrated Hollywood scriptwriter-director Paul Schrader, who penned “Taxi Driver” and Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi.

MFF carries some of the biggest cash awards.

The movies will be screened at Fun Republic 4 screens multiplex in
Andheri, Mumbai.