Girish wants IFFI out of Goa
Acclaimed director Girish Kasaravalli today favoured shifting of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) from Goa citing its Bollywood inclination and serious organisational lacunae.
The renowned Kannada director was also perturbed over a photo goof-up in the IFFI-2006 brochure which had printed Kasaravalli’s photograph in place of Kannada superstar late Raj Kumar in the homage section.
“I am probably among the very few filmmakers in the world who have read their own obituary”, he quipped.
“In Goa, glamour has taken over the festival whereas it is the creator of the film, the director, who should get prominence in a film festival,” Kasaravalli told presspersons here.
Kasaravalli said that in the first year of IFFI in Goa the festival was like a carnival with nobody knowing what was happening. “Last year, I as not allowed into a theatre and this year they have killed me. It is going from bad to worse.” “I feel IFFI should move out of Goa. Let Goa have its own film festival and if they decide to have a Bollywood focus, nothig wrong with it as there are many festivals across the world with various themes like gay film festivals, lesbian film festials and festival of animal films,” he said.
“But if you call it IFFI, it’s your duty to bring the best of regional cinema which includs Hindi cinema too, but not of the Bollywood variety which is purely a synthetic culture.”
— PTI
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