Actor and producer Aamir Khan will attend a particular screening of ‘Lagaan’ in Melbourne on July 9 to mark the movie’s twenty fifth anniversary, kicking off the seventeenth version of the Indian Movie Competition Melbourne (IFFM), a month forward of the primary pageant dates.
The seventeenth version of the IFFM will happen from August 13 to 23. The curtain raiser will happen on the ACMI Cinema in Melbourne, the place Khan will formally launch this 12 months’s pageant celebrations alongside the anniversary screening.
“Lagaan” is the third Indian movie to obtain an Academy Award nomination within the class then often known as Greatest International Language Movie and stays one of the influential titles in Indian cinema historical past. The movie’s twenty fifth anniversary can be being celebrated elsewhere this 12 months: on the seventeenth version of the London Indian Movie Competition in July, Khan will make a separate look linked to the “Lagaan” leg.
Launched in 2001 and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, “Lagaan: As soon as Upon a Time in India” is about in a drought-stricken village in colonial India, the place farmers going through a punitive land tax problem British occupying officers to a cricket match, the end result of which determines whether or not the tax is doubled or eliminated totally. The movie starred Khan alongside Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley and Paul Blackthorne.
Supported by the Victorian Authorities, the IFFM has hosted many luminaries of Indian cinema through the years, together with Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, AR Rahman, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Ram Charan, Vijay Sethupathi, Vicky Kaushal, Vijay Varma and Keerthy Suresh, in addition to filmmakers Rajkumar Hirani, Shoojit Sircar, Anjali Menon, Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, Zoya Akhtar, Rima Das, Onir and Kabir Khan.
“The Melbourne Indian Movie Competition has all the time celebrated tales which have had an enduring influence on audiences, and there couldn’t have been a greater method to begin our seventeenth version than by celebrating 25 years of ‘Lagaan,’” stated pageant director Mitu Bhowmick Lange. “The movie marks a milestone in Indian cinema and continues to encourage generations of filmmakers and audiences all over the world. We’re delighted to welcome Aamir Khan to Melbourne for this particular celebration and sit up for presenting one other memorable version of the pageant that brings collectively the most effective of Indian cinema.”
The seventeenth version will characteristic a variety of movie screenings, previews, conversations, masterclasses and cultural occasions bringing collectively filmmakers, actors, trade professionals and cinema lovers from all over the world.