IFFI to honour Mrinal Sen’s ‘Bhuvan Shome’

The golden jubilee edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will honour some of Indian cinema's iconic names who left us in recent years.
The homage section, IFFI Remembers, will screen filmmaker Mrinal Sen's classic ‘Bhuvan Shome’ (1969) and Girish Karnad's ‘Kanooru Heggadithi’ (1999), both being National award winning film.
Actress Vidya Sinha's ‘Rajnigandha’ (1974), Assamese actor Biju Phukan's ‘Aparoopa’ (1982) and actress-singer Ruma Guha ‘Thakurta's Ganashatru’ (1990), directed by Satyajit Ray, will also be screened in this section.
Music composer Khayyam's National award-winning score in ‘Umrao Jaan’ (1981) and MJ Radhakrishnan's cinematography in the upcoming Malayalam film ‘Veyilmarangal’ will be a part of the section alongside Veeru Devgan's stunts in ‘Phool Aur Kaante’ (1991) and Kader Khan's dialogues in ‘Hum’ (1991). Rajkumar Barjatya's blockbuster ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!’ (1994) is also a part of the special section.
Near about 10,000 delegates and film buffs will attend this year's IFFI Goa which will be held from 20–28 November.