Konkani film to open Indian Panorama

New Delhi, Nov 3 : Konkani film 'Paltadacho Munis' by Laxmikant Shetgaonkar will open the feature films section of Indian Panorama of the 40th International Film Festival of India,(IFFI-2009) be held in Goa later this month.

The Indian Panorama will have 26 feature films, six of which are Bengali, and 18 non-feature films.

The non-feature film section will open with 'In For Motion' (English) directed by Anirban Datta.

The films were selected by two juries. The jury for the feature films was headed by renowned director Muzafar Ali. Its other members were Bobby Bedi, Joseph Pulinthanath, J Mahendran, Gautaman Bhaskaran, Leslie Carvalho and Raja Mitra.

The members of the Jury for Non-Feature Films, headed by Aribam Syam Sharma, were Paromita Vohra, Dr Pushpesh Pant, Sameer Hanchate and Kapilas Bhuyan.

Following are the names of the feature films in the Panorama, their language and their directors: Paltadacho Munis-Konkani, by by Laxmikant Shetgaonkar; Ainaate-Bengali, by Dulal Dey; Angashumaner Chhobi-Bengali, by Atanu Ghosh; Antaheen-Bengali, by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury; Dwando-Bengali, by Suman Ghosh; Janala-Bengali, by Buddhadeb Dasgupta; Shob Charitro Kalponik-Bengali, Rituparno Ghosh; For Real-English, by Sona Jain; Land Gold Women-English & Urdu, by Avantika Hari; Dev. D-Hindi, Anurag Kashyap; Firaaq-Hindi, by Nandita Das; Kaminey-Hindi, by Vishal Bhardwaj; Oye Lucky-Lucky Oye-Hindi, by Dibakar Banerjee; The White Elephant-Hindi, Ajiz Khan; Beli Matthu Hola-Kannada, by P R Ramadasa Naidu; Ijjodu-Kannada, by M.S. Sathyu; Shankara Punyokoti-Kannada, by G. Murthy; Keshu-Malayalam, by Sivan; Kutty Shrank -Malayalam, by Shaji N. Karun; Ek Cup Chya-Marathi, by Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukhtankar; Gabhrjcha Paus-Marathi, by Satish Manwar; Harishchandrachi Factory-Marthi, by Paresh Mokashi; Haat The Weekly Bazaar-Rajasthani, by Seema Kapoor; Achchamundu Achchamundu -Tamil, by Arun Vaidyanathan; Pasanga- Tamil, by Pandi Raj, and Gaggara-Tulu, by Shivadhwaj Shetty.

The non-feature film section includes the following films: Bilal-Bengali and Hindi, by Sourav Sarangi; Ekti Kaktaliya Golpo-Bengali, by Tathagaba Sinha; I’m the Very Beautiful-Bengali, byShyamal Kumar Karmakar; The First Leap-English, by Haobam Pabankumar; The Latent City-English, by Krishnendu Bose; The Prince and the Crown of Stones-English, by Gautam Benegal; What If?-English, by V.K. Prakash; Boond-Hindi, by Abhishek Pathak; Chilika banks-Hindi, Akanksha Joshi; Kya Main Qafir Hoon-Hindi, by Sandhin Flora; Supermen of Malegaon-Hindi & Urdu, by Faiza Ahmad Khan; Swayambhu Sen Forsees His End-Hindi, Malayalam, English, by Debashish Medhkar; When This Man Dies-Hindi & English, by Arun Sukumar; Kelkkunnundo - Malayalam, by Geetu Mohan Das; Ilisa Amagi Mahao- Manipuri, by Nighthouja Lancha; Vitthal-Marathi, by Vinno Choliparambil; Nanam Oru Pen-Tamil, by V Ranganathan.

--UNI

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