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Child poverty film wins Short Film Award at IFFI

BollywoodWorld.com, A short film about child poverty in India won the Golden Lamp Tree award, while a film on pesticides tragedies in India won the Special Environment Film prize in the Short Film competition awards at the 42nd International Film festival of India (IFFI) Thursday. The awards were instituted by the Short Film Centre (SFC), [...]

Shahrukh Khan offers to strip at IFFI opener

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan Wednesday turned an otherwise drab official function into a rib-tickling affair by offering to strip and reveal his bermudas on stage at the inauguration of the 42nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI). Shah Rukh, the chief guest at the inauguration of the 11-day festival, was at his hilarious best [...]

Sunil Shetty skips father-in-law’s birthday bash for IFFI

Mumbai, Suniel Shetty missed his father-in-law’s birthday celebration in the US to attend the screening of “Red Alert-The War Within” – a movie that deals with the Maoists – at the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. The actor-producer says it was a “heartbreaking decision”. “I had to choose between attending my [...]

Ben Kingsley’s wife might team up with Aishwarya Rai in Taj

Panaji, (BollywoodWorld.com) Actress Aishwarya Rai might be pitted against Ben Kingsley’s wife Daniela Lavender in his dream project “Taj”, a film about Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and his quest to build the Taj Mahal. “Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will play Mumtaz in the movie, if she approves the script and loves it. Daniela would be playing [...]

Goa Police dismiss reports of terror threat during IFFI

Panaji, (BollywoodWorld.com) Goa Police Thursday dismissed media reports about a possible terror threat to the forthcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which gets underway here Nov 23. Speaking to reporters in Panaji, Superintendent of Police Atmaram Deshpande said the state police had received no such terror-related input from the intelligence agencies. “We are not [...]

Amitabh Bachchan not invited to IFFI, co-host upset

Panaji, (BollywoodWorld.com) The entertainment society of Goa (ESG), co-host of the 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), has held its central government partner Directorate of film festivals (DFF) responsible for not inviting legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan to grace the festival. Bachchan has not been invited ever since IFFI shifted to Goa [...]