Sixty-two films in 34 languages will be screened at Jharkhand National Film Festival that kicked off at the Michael John Auditorium in Bistupur on Tuesday.
Organised by city-based filmmakers under the banner Asma Charitable Trust and Mitra Productions, the second edition of the three-day film festival was inaugurated by a panel of guests that included district transport officer Dinesh Ranjan, educationist Bharat Singh, director of Srinath College of Education Sukhdev Bhagat, entrepreneur Shekhar Dey, LIC senior divisional manager Mohammad Ansari and others.
On the first day 18 films were screened at the auditorium. Some of the films screened were mostly by city-based filmmakers that included Kisan ka Karz directed by Gursharan Singh, Kachre Wali Love Story directed by Vivek Upadhyay, The Guilty by Saurabh Suman Jha and Manjuli directed by Trinayan Sharma from Mumbai. Films in Khorta, Radi Bangla, Nagpuri and Ho were screened on the first day. About 200 people attended the screening on Day-I.
The festival had a total entry of 109 films out of which 62 were selected to be screened in the three-day fest that will be followed by an award ceremony on October 18 at the Tata Auditorium on the XLRI campus.
“This is a platform for a lot of local filmmakers who in spite of their hard work cannot showcase their films on public platforms. The first edition of the film festival was successful and we would want to continue this trend in the future too. We allow film screenings in multiple languages because every language has its own beauty and this also promotes regional films too,” said Raju Mitra, the founder of Jharkhand National Film Festival (JNFF).
This year too, screening will take place at the Michael John Auditorium and Srinath College of Education in Adityapur. Films in four languages of Jharkhand — Santhali, Ho, Nagpuri, Khorta — along with Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil will be screened at the festival.
The finale on October 18 will recognise actors, singers, directors, best film and best camera person. As the festival promotes students for filmmaking, a 50 per cent discount was offered in the entry fee.
The highest entry fee (Rs 2,500) was for feature films and the lowest (Rs 1,000) for a video album.
Last year, 64 films were screened at the festival.
