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Veteran Bengali Actor Slams Anil Kapoor's Dance At 46th IFFI Opening

Darpan News Desk, 22 Nov, 2015 01:41 PM
  • Veteran Bengali Actor Slams Anil Kapoor's Dance At 46th IFFI Opening
Veteran Bengali actor Dhritiman Chatterjee, who has acted in films by Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, on Sunday took objection to Bollywood star Anil Kapoor dancing on stage during the inaugural session of the 46th edition of IFFI.
 
Addressing a press conference to extend his support to the protesting students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Chatterjee, a veteran 70-year-old actor from Bengal who has been part of the parallel cinema movement, also condemned the imposition of the prohibitive section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code in Panaji, the city hosting the International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
 
"IFFI, a government film festival, is taking a different course. It is no longer about good cinema. This is about entertainment. I feel very reluctant to say this, but the chief guest (Kapoor) at the IFFI opening ceremony was dancing on stage? Is this an intention to make the film festival another arm of Bollywood, to entertain," Chatterjee asked.
 
Kapoor, who was invited as the chief guest during the IFFI inauguration on Friday, did an impromptu 'tapori' act on stage to popular songs filmed on him like "1 2 ka 4", and the raunchy number "Dhak Dhak" along with co-host Aditi Rao Hydari.
 
Chatterjee also questioned the idea of celebrating cinema and culture in excessive police presence.
 
"Section 144 is in force in Panaji. I have been associated with cinema for four decades and I have never seen such a surreal situation when a district magistrate says section 144 is imposed because a celebration of cinema is going on," Chatterjee said.

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