A five-day long film festival ‘Ekagra’ will be organised at Bharat Bhavan. The film festival will feature movies directed by famous Hollywood director Alfred Hitchcock.
The film festival is organised every month which focuses only on one film personality from Hollywood and Bollywood. The festival will begin from July 1 and will be continued till July 5.
The festival will kick start with the movie Psycho. Notably, Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer and is often referred to as ‘The Master of Suspense’. He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres.
He had a successful career in British cinema with both silent films and early talkies and became renowned as England's best director. Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955.
On July 2, the movie Vertigo will be screened. On July 3 movie The Skin Game will be screened. Movie Strangers on a Train will be screened on July 4 and the festival will be concluded with the movie Frenzy.
While talking about the festival, CAO Prem Shankar Shukla said, “Every month we organise this festival and each time we receive a good response by the movie lovers of the city. As the audiences give a satisfying response we endeavour to feature something different for them. Earlier we had featured the movies based on particular directors, novels, writers, actors and so this time we thought to give them a glimpse of the personalities from history.”
Elaborating further he said, “This would be a different experience for the movie lovers as well for us as we also endeavour to promote classical cinema,” he added.