
Bhimsen Joshi, Shrinivas Joshi sang Raag Puriya Dhanashri and a renowned bhajan of panditji ' तीर्थ विठ्ठल क्षेत्र विठ्ठल ' We were able to watch short films filmed on Sulochana Chava, Shashi Kapoor and Hemamalini which were speciaaly created for the film festival । Audience were so charming as always. The festival is dedicated to Bharatratna Pt. He was working like any ordinary man at the ceremony, a great personality indeed. Dr.Jabbar Patel, Director of PIFF, the greatest director Marathi Cinema ever had.With his films like Jait Re Jait, Simhasan, Ek HotaVidushak (which showed the other side of Lakshmikant Berde), Samna, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. So, it was a spectacular opening ceremony with stars like Sulochana Chavan, Hemamalini, Shashi Kapoor (all three were awarded 'Lifetime Achievement') also Mohan Agashe, Taboo, Randhir Kapoor were present. Thanks to Samar Nakhate for that beautiful lecture otherwise I would not not be writing this blog tonight. I started learning from cinemas rather than just to be entertained. From that day my vision towards cinema changed entirely. He showed us two three nice films(one of them was 'Red Red Balloon') and discussed a lot about Cinema. After 10th exams I atteneded a lecture on Film/Cinema at Chanakya Mandal by Samar Nakhate. It took some time for me to realise that there are other persons like director, producer, distributor, music director that contribute to a film. The list just grew bigger by age with some new names making an entry like Lakshmikant Berde, Ashok Saraf, Dilip Prabhavalkar,Aamir Khan, Ajay Devgan,Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Russel Crowe. Amitabh Bachchan is my favourite actor since then.
