Three-day ‘Kashi Film Festival’ with cultural events and movie screening held in Varanasi

Indian Ministry of Information & Broadcasting inaugurated a three-day ‘Kashi Film Festival’ in Varanasi under the Divya Kashi campaign. The festival was launched on 27th December 2021 by UP Tourism Minister Neelkanth Tiwari and Apoorva Chandra, Secretary, Ministry of

Information & Broadcasting at Rudraksh Convention Center.

The opening day of the film festival featured live shows by singer Kailesh Kher, comedian Raju Srivastava and actor Manoj Joshi. The thought-provoking movie “Toilet-Ek Prem Katha” was also screened. A cultural performance by veteran actress Hema Malini was the most enticing among all the features lined up for the following day while a panel discussion on “Varanasi-Journey from a cultural, mythological and historical heritage to a modern city” and “Music and Songs-

Virasat of Banaras” also proved to be quite enlightening. Bhojpuri film “Humke Disha Mil Gaya” added a regional twist to the special event. On 29th December, the final day of the film festival, another panel discussion on ‘Uttar Pradesh as an important center for film production and the potential of regional cinema’ was conducted. Performances by singer Ravi Tripathi and actor Ravi Kishan held the audience enthralled while the day as well as the three-day long festival culminated with the airing of the historical movie “Manikarnika”.