New Delhi, October 20: The ‘Indian Panorama’ section of the International Film Festival of India, 2009 will include mainstream Bollywood fare like Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Dev D’ and Vishal Bharadwaj’s ‘Kaminey’.
The festival to be held in Panjim, Goa, from November 23, will showcase six movies from Bengal, three from Karnataka, three from Maharashtra and two each from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, in the Panaroma section.
There will also be five Hindi films, two English and one each in Rajasthani, Konkani and Tulu. In all there will be 26 movies of which five have been nominated by the Film and Television Producers Guild and the Film Federation of India.
Thanks to the Guild and the Federation, mainstream films have found a place in the Indian Panorama, a section once specially envisaged to showcase the cream of India’s meaningful and artistic cinema.
–PTI