SAFF concludes in Goa
The relatively dull 4th South Asian Film Festival (SAFF) being hosted by Goa, saw an even more disappointing closing ceremony on Monday with a turnout of only around 100 viewers in the nearly 1,000 seater Kala Academy auditorium. The four-day-long festival concluded with the screening of Afghan film Opium War.
Actress Manisha Koirala, directors Rajat Kapoor and Nirmal Pandey and Maldives film director Fathimath Nathulla were the only guests present from the film industry. Speaker of the Goa legislative assembly Pratapsingh Rane and chairman of the managing committee of the festival Jeetendra Deshprabhu were the other prominent individuals present. The guests chose to keep their speeches short, possibly�because of the lack of audience.
The four-day-long festival, which started on June 26 and ended on June 29, saw the screening of 60 films from eight SAARC countries, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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Some of the notable films screened were Welcome to Sajjanpur, Fashion, A Wednesday, Aha!, Megher Por Megh, The Roots, Opium War, Ramchand Pakistani, Mohabattan Sachian, Death on a Full Moon Night, The Dark Night of the Soul and In An Iranian Market. The festival began with Maldivian movie Yousuf.
