Chandigarh Music and Film Festival from April 27: Several Prominent Bollywood Celebrity to Join

By Tricity News

Chandigarh 24^th April:- The Chandigarh Music and Film Festival (CMFF), is proud to announce its 1st year programming line-up from 27^th-29^th April in the tri-city. The festival will feature several prominent Bollywood celebrities including Subhash Ghai, Satish Kaushik, Mahi Gill, Khayali Saharan, and Raza Murad among others. CMFF is providing an opportunity to the people of Chandigarh to experience films as an art and expand participants’ worldview through film screenings and filmmaker discussions. Chandigarh University will host the festival for the first 2 days and the final day of the festival will happen at the PVR Cinemas in Elante Mall, Chandigarh. The timings for the same will be from 10 am to 6 pm for all 3 days.

The 3-day festival aims at providing not only a common platform for the cinema of the world to showcase their best film but also understand different film cultures across the globe. This film festival platform also exhibits tremendous potentialities and abilities of youth. The main objective of CMFFis to fulfil the cultural gap of the community of Chandigarh by introducing a Film Festival as per international standards.

Rajesh Sharma, Festival Director - CMFF, who has an experience of more than 25 years in the advertising & film industry, and also been successfully organizing the Dehradun International Film Festival since the last three years said that it was our dream to provide a platform to the young budding filmmakers from the regions of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Chandigarh to showcase their work to nationally and internationally acclaimed filmmakers and producers as well as the artistically inclined audience of the city.

The Festival Curator,Santanu Ganguly, who has been curator to various national and international film festivals since the last 15 years, said that we are extremely happy to receive the overwhelmed response from the enthusiastic students' community as well as the young filmmakers. Our motto is to showcase nationally and internationally acclaimed and award-winning films to the audience of Chandigarh, and also to improve the cinema sense of the young patrons.

Other known personalities that will grace the occasion by their presence Mukul Dev,  Mukesh Tiwari, Nawab Shah, Satinder Satti, Yash Pal Sharma and Priti Sapru.