Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore,
Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting inaugurated the Indian Panorama
section of the 46th IFFI at the Inox theatre complex. The Minister along with Sunil Arora, Secretary I&B also
felicitated the jury members of Feature and Non Feature Film category. They
also felicitated the Directors and other cast & crew of the opening films
in the Feature and Non-Feature category at the Indian Panorama section at
IFFI-2015. Sanskrit film "Priyamanasam" directed by Vinod Mankara is the opening film in the feature
section, while film "Goonga Pehalwan", based on the life and
struggles of Virender Singh, one of India's most accomplished deaf athletes
kick-started the non-feature category. “Films are a very important and powerful
medium in spreading message across the world. It promotes friendship. Films
made in any part of the world are enjoyed across the globe irrespective of
language," Rathore saidwhile inaugurating
the section..Indian Panorama is Government’s initiative to select films of
cinematic, thematic and aesthetic excellence and to showcase to the world. This
year out of record number of entries of 238 feature films and 146 non-feature
films, 26 feature films and 21 non-feature films had been selected by the
Indian Panorama Jury. The selection in the feature film category included 7
Bengali, 5 Hindi, 4 Malyalam, 4 Marathi and 1 each in Kannada, Konkani,
Sanskrit, Tamil and Wancho (Arunachal Pradesh) languages.
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