Shah Rukh films in major Polish festival

Shah Rukh films in major Polish festival
Monday, July 18, 2005 15:50 IST
By Santa Banta News Network
Five movies of superstar Shah Rukh Khan are among 15 Indian films to be screened at one of the biggest film events in Poland, in a sign of Bollywood's growing presence abroad.

Some 150 films from all over the world will be screened during the '5 Era New Horizons Film Festival' to be held during July 21-31 in Cieszyn town, some 400 km away from here.

For the first time Indian films have been given prominence and 15 of them will be shown in Cieszyn.

On the one hand Sayajit Ray's critically acclaimed "Apu trilogy", comprising "Pather Panchali", "Apur Sansar" and "Aparajito" along with Guru Dutt's "Pyaasa" and Raj Kapoor's "Awara" are there to draw the attention of audiences.

On the other, five films of Shah Rukh too have been included - "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai", "Kal Ho Na Ho", "Main Hoon Na", "Dil Se" and "Devdas".

Shah Rukh's appeal in Poland is well-known with his film "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham", released earlier in January with Polish sub-titles, turning out to be a big success in the commercial circuit. It ran for two months in Warsaw and then went on to be screened in many places in Poland.

Mira Nair's "Salaam Bombay", Mrinal Sen's "Ek Din Pritidin", Buddhadeb Dasgupta's "Mondo Meyer Upakhyan", Murali Nair's "Pattiyude Divasam" and Arvind Sinha's "Kaya Pooche Maya Se" will also be screened. Arvind Sinha is coming to attend the film festival.

All the films will have Polish subtitles.

Speaking to the media, Anil Wadhwa, the Indian ambassador to Poland, said: "In a world where films have become a commodity, produced and distributed as successfully as fizzy drinks or cars, the Cieszyn festival is an absolute sensation that restores one's faith in the sense of art."

"Finally Indian films, including Bollywood blockbusters, are making their presence felt in a country which is famous for world class directors like Roman Polanski, Andrejz Wajda and Krzystof Zansussi. We are late but not that late," told Wadhwa.

Later in September, six Bollywood films will be screened in Warsaw.

"Poland is an exciting film market and Polish distributors will realise it soon," said Anna Bem, a Polish woman who lived in India in the 1980s and who has seen many Indian movies.
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