The dictionary was initially among 5 Bengali films selected for the Indian Panorama section of the festival.
A Bengali feature film, whose director is now West Bengal’s education minister, has found itself out of a list prepared for screening at the Indian Panorama during the International Film Festival of Goa in Goa.
The 52nd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) begins on November 20 and – as per the official list released on November 5, five feature films in Bengali language and two non-feature films were shortlisted for it. Indian panorama.
Feature films include Dictionary, which released earlier this year during Saraswati Puja, and even before the second wave of COVID-19 started in the country filled the house. The film’s director Bratya Basu later became the education minister of West Bengal after the Trinamool Congress won the assembly elections in the state in May this year.
Dictionary In the lead roles, two hugely popular Bengali actors – Nusrat Jahan (a Trinamool Congress MP) and Abir Chatterjee – and its inclusion in the Indian panorama were celebrated by the local media, and the Bengal film fraternity rejoiced. A new list released by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on 6 November, however, did not include Dictionary,
The reason behind its boycott is not yet clear. For that matter, even its inclusion appears to be a last minute decision and an afterthought is considered to be at the bottom of the list, no. 25, even though the other selected Bengali films were grouped – alphabetically by language – at the beginning of the list.
When asked to comment, producers of DictionaryFirdousul Hasan, who is also the Vice President of the Film Federation of India, said that he would return. Filmmaker Jayshree Bhattacharya, a member of the feature-film jury for Indian Panorama, said she would once know what was really the matter. Officials of the Directorate of Film Festivals could not be reached for comment.
Bengali feature films which are now included in the list of Indian panoramas include kalkokkho, Nittonoi Sahaj Sarli, aristocrat And Manikbabar Cloud,