Movie buffs attending the Calcutta Film Festival are in for a surprise.
This year's focus country is the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Fellini , a film from Uzbekistan by Nazim Abbasov, has been chosen as the inaugural film of the third International Forum of New Cinema being held as part of the seven-day sixth Calcutta Film Festival beginning November 10. One of the country's best filmmakers, the late Raj Kapoor, has been named Showman of the century by the arts body Punjabi Kala Sangam while Hrithik Roshan and Tabu get the best performer honors in the 23rd annual Kalashree Awards announced here Tuesday. Birendranath Sircar, founder of Calcutta's New Theaters and creator of several immortal stars of Indian cinema, is a man whose footprints are imprinted in the annals of Indian motion-picture history. Yash Chopra's Mohabbatein and Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Mission Kashmir have drawn great initials and both are well poised to send cash registers ringing.