Eminent actor Akshay Kumar and well-known director Vivek Agnihotri will be attending the inauguration of the prestigious ‘Chitra Bharati Film Festival-2022 (CBFF-2022)’ of Bharatiya Chitra Sadhna.
The three-day film festival will be inaugurated on Friday at 6 pm in the new campus of Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bishankhedi.
Culture and Tourism Minister Usha Thakur, President of Bharatiya Chitra Sadhna Prof BK Kuthiala, MCU Vice Chancellor Prof KG Suresh and Chairman of Organizing Committee Dilip Suryavanshi will take part as special guests. Eminent filmmakers and artists of the country will also share their experiences with the youth from the field of filmmaking in the film festival from March 25 to 27.
While talking to media persons, Prof BK Kuthiala told that the Bharatiya Chitra Sadhana aims to ensure that that the films made in India should not only be a mirror of the society but also serve to give direction to the society. Our thinking and behavior change through cinema. That is why it is our responsibility to show such films which are beneficial for the society. The film festival aims to give impetus and direction to filmmaking amongst the youth.
Prof. Kuthiala informed that the festival will conclude on March 27 in the new auditorium of Ravindra Bhavan. Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Lokanathan Murugan will be the chief guest. Eminent actor and Vice Chancellor of Pt Lakhmichand State Performing and Visual Arts University, Haryana Gajendra Chauhan, film directors Abhinav Kashyap and Shri Vivek Agnihotri will be present as special guests.
This is the fourth edition of ‘Chitra Bharati National Short Film Festival’. This event is organized every two years. It started from Madhya Pradesh in 2016 in Indore. Later this film festival was organized in Delhi in 2018 and Karnavati (Ahmedabad) in 2020. The festival will create an environment for film making in Bhopal and the entire Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh is one of the best cities for film production.
The event of Chitra Bharti will give will provide opportunity, encouragement and guidance to the youth of Madhya Pradesh. Bharatiya Chitra Sadhna encourages cinema that promotes Indian values. Cinema is a fast-paced industry providing employment to the people. In the changing times, new platforms like OTT have also proved effective in connecting the youth with cinema. There is a lot of potential for making meaningful cinema on the OTT platform.
Eminent filmmakers and artists of the country will address the master class at the Chitra Bharati Film Festival. On the first day on March 25, renowned film director T.S. Nagabharan (Kannada), Subhash Sahu (Oriya) and Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (Hindi) will take the master class.
On the second day there will be a master class of Marathi film director Prof. Vaman Kendre, Shri Sarat Bhattatiripady and film critic Shri Anant Vijay. On the last day on 27th March, Sutradhar of Mahabharata and famous voice over artist Dr. Harish Bhimani, Shri Abhinav Kashyap, director of famous films like Master Class and Dabangg, will communicate in the open forum. A large number of people have registered on Chitra Bharti’s mobile application to attend the master class. The app is available on both Android and iOS platforms under the name ‘Chitra Bharati’.
120 films will be screened in three days
As many as 712 films in 15 languages ??were received from 22 states for the festival. The Screening Committee has selected 120 films for screening. Films will be screened at four different venues, including short films, documentaries, animation and campus films. The producers and directors of these films are also coming to attend the film festival in large numbers.