Asserting that the present should go on regardless of the pandemic scenario, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday mentioned celebrity Shah Rukh Khan will grace the digital inauguration of the twenty sixth Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) on January 8.
The seven-day competition will start by paying tribute to 2 greats – auteur Satyajit Ray on his start centenary, and iconic Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who died of post-COVID issues in November final yr.
Together we’ll overcome this pandemic. But the present should go on. We are going forward with #KIFF 2021 just about, on a smaller scale. Glad that my brother @iamsrk will be part of us just about on the inaugural occasion on Jan 8, 4pm. Watch Kolkata International Film Festival stay
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) January 6, 2021
“Together we will overcome this pandemic. But the show must go on. We are going ahead with #KIFF 2021 virtually, on a smaller scale. Glad that my brother Shah Rukh Khan will join us virtually at the inaugural event on Jan 8, 4pm,” Mamta Banerjee mentioned on Twitter.
Satyajit Ray’s traditional Apur Sansar, which was Soumitra Chatterjee’s debut movie, can be screened on the inauguration.
A complete of 131 movies — in characteristic, quick and documentary codecs — can be screened at choose state-run theatres of the town, together with Nandan and Rabindra Sadan.
Superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan together with different large names of Bollywood had been company on the inaugural ceremony for the previous few years.
