Kamal Haasan, Mani Ratnam, Priyanka Chopra Jonas light up grand opening of Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival

Mani Ratnam, Kamal Haasan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas on the crimson carpet of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival

The Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival kicked off with a grand ceremony on the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) in Mumbai on October 27. The pageant, which screens a various choice of Indian, South Asian and world cinema for the town’s cinephiles, is again with a bodily version after a hiatus of 4 years. It is screening over 250 movies in 70 languages over 10 days until November 5.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas, the chairperson of Jio MAMI, declared the pageant open with the grasp ceremony.

The opening evening commenced with legendary administrators Mani Ratnam and Luca Guadagnino being honoured with the Excellence in Cinema award. Kamal Haasan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas offered the awards to those luminaries.

Kamal and Mani Ratnam, identified for his or her iconic collaboration on the Tamil-language gangster epic Nayakan (1987), additionally spoke about their upcoming movie collectively, KH234, which reunites the duo after over three many years.

Mani Ratnam, Kamal Haasan

“We are as excited as those who want to see us work together,” Kamal stated on stage whereas honouring his previous colleague and good friend. “We are both producing the film together under our respective banners Raaj Kamal Films and Madras Talkies. Mani is directing it and any job he gives me I will do. I am also the lead man.”

“I will keep it in mind,” Ratnam quipped, to resounding laughter. The teaser of KH 234 might be launched on November 7.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair is the top of jury of the South Asia Competition at this 12 months’s Mumbai Film Festival. She was joined on stage by her fellow jurors—David Michod, Isabel Sandoval and Edouard Waintrop.

Bhumi Pednekar because the model ambassador for Dimensions Mumbai – a brief movie competitors on the theme of Mumbai City for filmmakers throughout India – offered the awards to the winners together with Shahana Goswani, Anvitaa Dutt and Shriya Pilgaonkar. Nightingales within the Cocoon by Praveen Giri received the Dimensions Mumbai Gold Award winner whereas Halfway by Kumar Chheda received the Silver Award.

Sonam Kapoor Ahuja

Sonam Kapoor Ahuja offered the award for the perfect e-book on cinema to Prakash Magdum for his work, Mahatma on Celluloid: A Cinematic Biography. The e-book explores the canon of documentaries, characteristic movies and newsreels made on Mahatma Gandhi by an enormous vary of filmmakers.

The lifetime achievement awards have been bestowed upon veteran Indian critic Aruna Vasudev, acclaimed creator and subtitler Nasreen Munni Kabir and movie programmer and casting director Uma Da Cunha. The awards have been offered by Marco Muller, Karan Johar and Adoor Gopalakrishnan respectively.

Hansal Mehta’s The Buckingham Murders was the opening evening movie on the pageant. The filmmaker was joined by lead star Kareena Kapoor Khan on the crimson carpet and South Asia premiere screening. Actor Saif Ali Khan additionally attended the gala night.