The national and international guests belonging to the cinema world today visited tourist sites and Skill Development Centre of Jharkhand State Skill Development Mission on the second day of the Jharkhand International Film festival and took part in various events that were organised at the Khelgaon Mega Sports Complex here on Saturday.
Organisers informed that that the artists today visited Skill Development Centre -- Venture Skill (Kanke Road) and Mitcon, Daladali Chowk on Saturday and took stock of the activities there. The artists saw and admired the initiatives taken by the Skill Development mission to enable youths for taking up employment opportunities there.
The group including Sanjay Mishra, Akhilendra Mishra, Pawan Sharma, Rajesh Jaies, Shikha Malhotra, Devi, Abhay Kumar Sinha, Manish Awasthi, Nabish Bhatia, Rashmi Bhargav, Rajiv Birla and others also went to the picturesque Patrau valley and admired the natural beauty of the State. They called it a suitable location for shooting of films with abundant fauna and flora around.
later, during a press meet the senior actors, directors and producers called the place a “Mini Bombay” where everything is present to shoot a complete feature film. The artists also appealed to people to enthusiastically take part in the events being oraganised at the JIFFA as they said that enjoying movies at the festival gives a different feel than doing it in a traditional movie theatre.
During the second day of the event also workshops, talent hunt competitions and talks were organised based on different themes related to film making. Also, dance competitions and a fashion show was organised on the second day. The most exciting event of the day was a cricket match organised between Celebrity XI Vs CS XI teams where government officials played against the artists present here for JIFFA.
On the concluding day of the festival eminent personalities including Ramesh Sippy, Gulshan Grover, Komal Nahata, Aman Verma, Sidhharth Chopra, Kiran Juneja, Atul Mohan, Sham Kaushal, Z Helena Pretiakova, Manav Magnali among others will arrive the Capital City.
On the concluding day a workshop of Ramesh Sippy Kiran Juneja and Rajkumar Gupta will be orgnaised at 2pm Kala Bhawan Auditoriun on ART OF FIlM MAKING. Also, a talk show on VFX Workshop by Stephen Marks Sr VP of Prime Focus will be organised.
The Award Night will begin at 7 PM with Mahesh Bhatt, Mukesh Bhatt, Ramesh Sippy, Sanjay Misra, Amol Palekar, Yashpal Sharma, Vijay Raj, Rajpal Yadav, Shilpa Rao, Udit Narayan, Saundarya Sharma, Rajesh Jais, Sapna Chaudhary. Governor Droupadi Murmu and other eminent persons of the State are expected to take part in the concluding ceremony.