Magic of Bollywood at Tashkent International Film Festival
Recently concluded Tashkent International
Film Festival witnessed participation from 15 countries including India, Italy,
Russia, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Israel, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland,
Tajikistan, and Turkey, among others. The theme of this edition of the festival
was ‘For Peace, Enlightenment, and Progress’. The festival has a great history
where once upon a time Raj Kapoor used to be the show-stealer. India presented
its culture and cinematography – “Days of Indian Cinema” on September 28-29.
Tashkent International Film Festival “Pearl
of the Silk Road“ appointed Sarfaraz Alam as Head of The Indian Delegation.
India and Indian stars are very popular in this region especially Mithun
Chakraborty and Shahrukh Khan. The organisers had requested Mr. Sarfaraz Alam
and his company Kartina Entertainment for bringing stars from Bollywood to
create magic and glamour on the red carpet. On 28th September 2021 at the
beautiful ‘Panorama’ hall in Tashkent Sarfaraz Alam walked the red carpet with
celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty, Randhir Kapoor, Gulshan Grover, Boman
Irani, Huma Qureshi, Richa Chaddha, Aditi Rao Haidri, Dino Morea, Kunal Kapoor,
and many more. With this star-studded Bollywood delegation, the show
became totally Indian. Mithun Chakraborty stole the show and still has the
biggest fan following in this region. The Uzbeki fans were thankful to Sarfaraz
Alam for bringing Mithun Chakraborty back to the country where he is a living legend.
On
29th September at the same venue Kartina Entertainment organised an Indian
event with the participation of all the Indian delegation under the leadership
of Sarfaraz where the Indian Ambassador to Uzbekistan Mr. Manish Prabhat was
also present. The most emotional part of the event was when Mr. Sarfaraz Alam
presented a beautiful bust of Raj Kapoor to the Government of Uzbekistan and
the statue was revealed by Mr. Randhir Kapoor and Mr. Mithun Chakraborty along
with the minister of Uzbekistan Kino Mr. Firdaus Fridunovitch. Song from “Mera
Naam Joker .. Jeena Yahan Marna Yahan “ in the background and the bust
revealing was really a tear-shedding moment for the audience. Then the
highlight of the event was when the audience started shouting Jimmy Jimmy and
Sarfaraz Alam pulled Mithun Chakraborty on the stage to show some of his
signature steps.
Sarfaraz Alam said “This festival
gives a unique opportunity for the Indian film industry to leave its mark on an
international platform. This is an endeavour to deepen the historic connections
between India and Uzbekistan and take the close cultural similarities of
architecture, dance, music, art, trade, and cinema to new heights.”
Several Indian movies including films like Mumbai
Saga directed by Sanjay Gupta and Ludo by Anurag Basu were screened at the Film
festival. Overall the Tashkent International film festival was a great show,
great hospitality and with lots of gifts and souvenirs our stars came back to
India.
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