A three-day film festival based on renowned filmmaker Kundan Shah will be organised in city. The film festival is all about the movies by Kundan Shah.
The event will be organised from October 25 to 27 at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. The film festival will begin with one the greatest movies by Kundan Shah, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro. It is to be noted that the film festival is being organised to observe the birth anniversary (October 19) and death anniversary (October 7) of the great filmmaker of Bollywood.
On October 25 i.e. on Wednesday the great comedy classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro will be screened. To mark the second day, movie Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa will be screened on Thursday and to mark the closure of the fest, movie Kya Kehna will be screened on Friday.
Kundan Shah was an Indian film director and writer. He is most known for his comedy classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) and his 1985–1986, TV series Nukkad with Saeed Akhtar Mirza. Shah studied direction at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune and he developed an interest in the comedy genre.
His directorial debut was the comedy film Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro in 1983. He also was the co-writer of the film, with Satish Kaushik. The film introduced Indian cinema to satirical comedy for the first time and was well accepted as not being slapstick.
Shah then started to work in television. After directing several serials, Shah took a long break of 7 years from cinema.
Shah made his comeback to cinema in 1993. He directed the famous Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa.