Shyam Benegal to be honored at the Third Eye Asian Film Festival

The 3rd Eye Asian Film Festival is going to honour the renowned filmmaker of Indian cinema - Shyam Benegal. This grand festival will be organized from 29th October to 14th November in Mumbai. In this festival, 80 films and 50 short movies from the Asian countries will be showed.

The director of this festival, Sudhir Nandgaonkar, stated that Benegal will be honored because of his experience in cinema. Sudhir also said that Shyam Benegal has been a great force in Bollywood and he will be given the Asian Film Culture award. Some of the famous movies of Shyam Benegal include Ankur, Junoon, Kalyug etc

Nandgaonkar also informed that the festival will be inaugurated by Son of Babylon, an Iraqi film. The Asian Film Culture award is given to the Asian directors for providing respect to their experience and to honor their achievements. This festival will also showcase 6 films by renowned Indian filmmaker Mrinal Sen.

Asian Film Cultural award for Big B

Opens up 8th Third Eye Asian Film Festival which will begin from December 4, and at the festival megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be felicitated with the Asian Film Cultural award for successful completion of 40 years in the entertainment industry.

The aim of this seven day festival in Mumbai is to promote Asian cinema and the coming together of Asian film fraternities. Around 100 feature and short films from 24 countries will be screened at the festival. Also there will be a Debut Film Directors competition section with 15 films from first-time Asian film makers. In the Short Films sections 44 films will be competing with each other.

The festival will begin with the Oscar-nominated film Harishchandrachi Factory.