Amitabh Bachchan Inaugurated 45th IFFI

Mega star Amitabh Bachchan inaugurated 45^th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) on 20^th November 2014 at dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium, Taleigao, Goa in an admit gathering with lighying of the lamp, where Arun Jaitely, union minister information & broadcasting, Laxmikant Parsekar chief minister of Goa, Col. Rajyavardhan rathore minister of state information & broadcasting, Ms. Mridula sinha governor of Goa, Manohar parikar union defence minister, Gulzar, rajnikanth, Ragini Trivedi, Pawan Kalyanji, Bimal Julka and many others were present. Anupam Kher and raveena Tandon hosted the event.

Arun Jaitely along with Amitabh Bachchan awarded the Centenary award for Film personality of the year to Rajnikanth, (the coveted award had gone to Waheeda Rehman last year) beside a shawl and a trophy. Arun Jaitely presented Life Time Achievement Award to Hong Kong’s filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai. And Arun Jaitely also felicitated the International Jury.

The 2014 edition of the film festival is 11^th day in a row at Goa begins with 35^th International film Festival of India in November 2014 in state. The festival will be continue in Goa only and Government has planned to fix Donakaol, Goa for the next each IFFI. Besides, the world premieres IFFI 2014 offers a repertoire of activities, such as The Film Bazar, 3D Films, Master Classes, Stalls and Open-Air screenings.

178 films from 79 countries uring 11 days from 20^th to 0^th Novenber to be shown in the estival in different categories

 hich include World Cinema
 61films), Master Strokes 911 
films), Festival Kaleidoscpe (20 

films), Soul of Asia (7 films), 
Documentries 96 films), 

Animated films (6 films), beside 
Indian panorama section would include 26 feature films and 15

 nom-feature films. THE PRESIDENT, directed by Mohsen 

Makhmalbaf (Iran) was the opening film while the festival will be 

close with THE GRAND MASTER film by Wong Kar-wai on 30^th November 2014.