Jagran Film Festival to go to 16 cities, introduces section on ad films

Jagran Film Festival to go to 16 cities, introduces section on ad films

Jagran Film

NEW DELHI: A total of sixteen cities will be covered by the 4th edition of the Jagran Film Festival, which will mark one hundred years of Indian cinema.

In Delhi, the Festival will be held at the Siri Fort Auditorium in Delhi from 5 to 9 July, and then go to Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Agra, Meerut, Dehradun, Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Indore, Bhopal and Mumbai.

The centenary celebration includes screening of films like Kundan Shah‘s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Satyajit Ray‘s Apu Trilogy , Ramesh Sippy‘s Sholay , Bimal Roy‘s Madhumati and Do Bigha Zameen, Guru Dutt‘s Pyaasa, Mani Ratnam‘s Nayagan, Hrishikesh Mukherjee‘s Anand , Vijay Anand‘s Guide , K. Asif‘s Mughal-e-Azam among others.

A special feature this year is Cinema for the Sellers - an Indian competition for advertising films.

Other sections include World Panorama, Indian Showcase, Indian Premieres, and Jagran Shorts.