Amitabh Bachchan Festival set at Festival des 3 Continents with 9 movies set to premiere in France : Bollywood News

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Having performed a sequence of massively profitable retrospectives in cinemas throughout the nation over the past yr in India – Bachchan Back To The Beginning, Dilip Kumar – Hero of Heroes and Dev Anand @ 100 – Forever Young, Film Heritage Foundation, the not-for-profit group based by filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, is gearing as much as co-present yet one more Amitabh Bachchan retrospective at a global movie competition for the very first time. Titled Amitabh Bachchan, Big B Forever, the retrospective might be premiered on the forty fifth version of the distinguished Festival des 3 Continents this yr which is able to happen from November 24 to December 3, 2023 in Nantes, France. It will characteristic 9 blockbuster movies of the residing legend akin to Abhimaan, Sholay, Deewar, Kabhie Kabhie, Amar Akbar Anthony, Trishul, Don and Kala Patthar. Shweta Bachchan, the daughter of the movie famous person might be travelling to Nantes to symbolize her father on the competition.

Amitabh Bachchan Festival set at Festival des 3 Continents with nine films set to premiere in France

Amitabh Bachchan Festival set at Festival des 3 Continents with 9 movies set to premiere in France

Amitabh Bachchan states, “Film Heritage Foundation’s initiative to bring classic Indian films back on the big screen in India has been truly remarkable. I am so pleased to hear that they are co-presenting a selection of nine of my early films at one of the oldest and most reputed film festivals – the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, especially as it focuses on the cinema of Africa, Latin America and Asia. Many of these films gave me an opportunity to play a diverse range of characters and work with some of the most significant filmmakers of the time including Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra and Ramesh Sippy. I hope that the festival audience will enjoy the selection of films that continue to give so much joy to viewers even half a century since they were made. Even though I will not be there in person, I am delighted that my daughter Shweta will be in Nantes to represent me at the festival.”

Shweta Bachchan states, “I am delighted to travel to Nantes for the Festival des 3 Continents to present some of my father Amitabh Bachchan’s milestone films at such a distinguished festival. This is a special occasion for me as I have the opportunity, for the first time, to represent my father, on an international platform. I would like to thank the Film Heritage Foundation for their exceptional commitment and ability in showcasing classic Indian cinema and drawing audiences back to the big screen when no one had faith that this would be possible. I saw the phenomenal success of “Bachchan Back to the Beginning” – the retrospective they curated on a large scale to have a good time my father’s eightieth birthday final yr. Many of us within the household had been watching his movies on the massive display screen for the primary time and we had been overwhelmed. The movies being screened in Nantes cowl various genres that may give the audiences on the competition the chance to see my father’s outstanding versatility as an actor.”

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Director, of Film Heritage Foundation states, “Film Heritage Foundation is proud to co-present ‘Amitabh Bachchan, Big B Forever’- a retrospective of nine landmark films that launched the career of India’s greatest superstar at the 45th edition of the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, France. We had presented an eclectic selection of Indian classics in the Indian Autumn stream of the festival last year and saw the enthusiastic response to the films from the festival audience. We would like to thank Jérôme Baron, the Artistic Director of the festival for giving us another opportunity this year to showcase nine Amitabh Bachchan films spanning a period from 1973 to 1982 when Mr. Bachchan was at the peak of his career, at the festival this year. Mr. Bachchan is an actor who is a worldwide phenomenon and an indefatigable champion for the cause of film preservation and when we conducted a country-wide retrospective of his films last year, the cinemas were packed and the audiences went crazy. Mr. Bachchan has been a childhood hero for me and it gives me immense pleasure to screen some of my personal favourite Amitabh Bachchan films as part of such a prestigious festival as well as to present Film Heritage Foundation’s most recent restoration ‘Ishanou’ (1990), Aribam Syam Sharma’s beautiful Manipuri film that had a red-carpet world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2023.”

Jérôme Baron, Artistic Director, Festival Des 3 Continents states, “The Festival of 3 Continents finds its breath and inspiration by combining its curiosity for contemporary cinema with that nurtured since its origins for classics that are often poorly known or unknown to Western audiences. And Amitabh Bachchan is precisely, as he continues a career that began fifty years ago, the living and iconic embodiment of a link between the past and present of popular Hindi cinema. He is an on screen unique performer and what no other actor has ever been, including in the history of European cinema. After a fruitful collaboration in 2022 with Film Heritage Foundation, we want, by seizing the ball thrown of the “Bachchan Back to the start” festival launched last year, to pay Amitabh Bachchan for the first time in France a tribute in nine films which will also be the opportunity to show the world premiere of Cédric Dupire’s astonishing documentary on him ‘The Real Superstar.’”

Festival des 3 Continents offers feature films from Africa, Latin America and Asia and screens, in the fiction and documentary films segment.