The nine-day long ‘Filmotsav 2015’ (Film Festival) at Bharat Bhavan Auditorium has captured the attention of the movie buffs of the city. The movies of various genres being screened here are being enjoyed by the citizens. Hollywood movies Boyhood, Rush were screened here on Wednesday along with Bollywood movie Vikalp.
Organised jointly by Madhya Pradesh IAS Officers’ Association and Madhya Pradesh Madhyam, the festival has become a regular event for the Bhopaltes. Further, the festival is a mixture of all the genres and languages of movies. The film festival would showcase the Bollywood and Hollywood movies, including drama, comedy and action and thriller.
Rush is a 2013 biographical sports drama film centered on the rivalry between race car drivers James Hunt and Niki lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season. It was written by Peter Morgan, directed by Ron Howard and stars Chris Hemsworth as Hunt and Daniel Brühl as lauda.
Boyhood is a 2014 American independent coming-of-age drama film, written and directed by Richard linklater, and starring Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, lorelei linklater, and Ethan Hawke. Shot intermittently from 2002 to 2013, Boyhood depicts the adolescence of Mason Evans, Jr. (Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Arquette and Hawke). Richard linklater's daughter lorelei plays Mason's sister, Samantha.
Vikalp is a 2011 film. Directed by Sachin P Karande it stars Pankaj Berry and Abhay Josi. It is about an Indian computer programmer who was caught as the prime suspect of cyber crime in Bangkok. The shows received good response by the movie buffs.