IFFM to rejoice 25 years of ‘Lagaan’ with Aamir Khan in attendance
Mumbai: Actor-producer Aamir Khan will attend a particular screening of his acclaimed movie ‘Lagaan’ on the seventeenth version of the Indian Movie Competition of Melbourne, the organisers introduced.
The competition, billed as the most important celebration of Indian cinema exterior India, shall be held from August 13 to 23 in Melbourne.
The movie gala’s curtain-raiser occasion on July 9 will commemorate the twenty fifth anniversary of ‘Lagaan’, the Ashutosh Gowariker-directed interval sports activities drama that is still one in every of Indian cinema’s most celebrated movies and was nominated for the Academy Award for ‘Greatest Overseas Language Movie’.
Khan will attend the particular screening at ACMI cinema in Melbourne, formally launching this 12 months’s competition celebrations, in response to a press launch.
Competition director Mitu Bhowmick Lange mentioned marking 25 years of ‘Lagaan’ was a becoming option to start the competition.
“The Indian Movie Competition of Melbourne has all the time celebrated tales which have made a long-lasting influence on audiences and there couldn’t have been a greater option to start our seventeenth version than by celebrating 25 years of ‘Lagaan’. The movie is a milestone in Indian cinema and continues to encourage generations of filmmakers and audiences around the globe. We’re delighted to welcome Aamir Khan to Melbourne for this particular celebration and sit up for presenting one other memorable version of the competition that brings collectively the easiest of Indian cinema,” Lange mentioned.
Backed by the Authorities of Victoria, the Indian Movie Competition of Melbourne has emerged as a significant worldwide platform for Indian cinema through the years.
The seventeenth version of the competition will function movie screenings, premieres, conversations, masterclasses and cultural occasions, bringing collectively filmmakers, actors, trade professionals and cinema fans from around the globe.
