Dear Comrades,
Sept 02, Colombo: Indian Cultural Centre in Colombo has inaugurated a five-day long film festival focusing on works of Gurudev Tagore on Thursday to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of noble laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Sri Lanka.
Senior Sri Lankan Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama in the presence of High Commissioner of India Ashok K. Kantha opened the film festival yesterday evening at the National Film Corporation Hall, the High Commission said in astatement.
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The films being screened in this festival are Pathar Panchali, Ghare Baire, Agantuk and Charulata directed by Satyajit Ray and Chokher Bhali directed by Rituparno Ghosh. A documentary on Tagore made by Satyajit Ray in 1961 when Tagore's 100th birth anniversary was commemorated worldwide will also be screened at the Festival.
Kantha also outlined the events already held to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Gurudev Tagore in Sri Lanka which included release of a special postal stamp by the Government of Sri Lanka and a commemorative volume "Remembering Rabindranath Tagore" on 7th May 2011.Among the events planned during the course of the year are re-staging of "Shap Mochan", a play staged in 1934 in Sri Lanka and which Gurudev Tagore himself had acted, exhibition of digital reproductions of Tagore's paintings and a photographic exhibition on life and travels of Tagore.
Fri, Sep 2, 2011, 09:24 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.Colombopage.com
