State's Tourism, Culture and Religion Minister Usha Thakur said this while addressing the inaugural session of the 6th Prestige International Film Festival organized at the UG campus of Prestige Institute of Management and Research here on Friday.
`All the problems that are being seen in the world can be solved only by Vedic traditions', the minister said, adding that the culture of India is based on true, eternal Vedic traditions. Describing tourism, culture and religion as an integral part of life, she said that all these three genres develop our personality.
Addressing the inauguration ceremony, noted film Yashpal Sharma elaborated about his directorial debut film 'Dada Lakhmi' which has been awarded in different countries. Sharma who proved his amazing acting ability in films like 3 Idiots, Gangaajal, said that the movie 'Dada Lakhmi' which is based on the life of Haryanvi folk singer 'Dada Lakhmichand', took him six years with tremendous amount of hard works to complete.
Urging people to watch this movie, Sharma said that he will not be happy even if people give him the gold-silver necklace, but if they watch the film for two and a half hours, then his penance of six years will be fulfilled. There are people from mass communication, there are people from films, if they want to watch a film, they will get to learn a lot. They will get to see dialogues, sets, story, music, everything in a unique form, the noted actor said.
Himanshu Jain, Director, Prestige Education Foundation, said that the main objective of this year's film festival is to promote India's cultural diversity and encourage regional films. He said that excellent regional films from different states of the country would be screened during the festival and the categories selected by the jury would be awarded.
Earlier, the 6th Prestige International Film Festival organized by the Department of Mass Communication of Prestige Institute of Management and Research, was formally inaugurated in the presence of distinguished guests. Dada Lakhmi, a directorial debut film of film actor Yashpal Sharma was the first movie shown on the first day of the festival.
In the second session of the inaugural ceremony, film actor, Yashpal Sharma threw light on various aspects of his life and his film journey in the In Conversation programme with Dr. Nidhi Sharma.