Festival Des 3 Continents.
Shweta Bachchan is a doting daughter to the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan. Time and again, Shweta has expressed her admiration towards her father and thus her latest Instagram post doesn’t come as a surprise. An Amitabh Bachchan Retrospective In France is being held between Nov 25 to Dec 3. Big B’s daughter Shweta Bachchan shared some timeless frames of her father and actor Amitabh Bachchan on her Instagram.
On Wednesday, Shweta Bachchan took to her handle and posted the stills and behind the scenes pictures from some of the most iconic films in Amitabh Bachchan’s career. She penned the caption, “WHO’s YOUR DADDY! @amitabhbachchan retrospective at the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, Paris .”
Having conducted a series of hugely successful retrospectives in cinemas across the country over the last year in India – “Bachchan Back To The Beginning”, “Dilip Kumar – Hero of Heroes” and “Dev Anand @ 100 – Forever Young”, Film Heritage Foundation, the not-for-profit organization founded by filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, is gearing up to co-present yet another Amitabh Bachchan retrospective at an international film festival for the very first time.
Titled ‘Amitabh Bachchan, Big B Forever’, the retrospective will be premiered at the 45th edition of the prestigious Festival des 3 Continents this year that will take place from November 24 to December 3, 2023 in Nantes, France. It will feature nine blockbuster films of the living legend such as Abhimaan, Sholay, Deewar, Kabhie Kabhie, Amar Akbar Anthony, Trishul, Don and Kaala Patthar.
Amitabh Bachchan states, “Film Heritage Foundation’s initiative to bring classic Indian films back on the big screen in India has been truly remarkable. I am so pleased to hear that they are co-presenting a selection of nine of my early films at one of the oldest and most reputed film festivals – the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, especially as it focuses on the cinema of Africa, Latin America and Asia. Many of these films gave me an opportunity to play a diverse range of characters and work with some of the most significant filmmakers of the time including Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra and Ramesh Sippy. I hope that the festival audience will enjoy the selection of films that continue to give so much joy to viewers even half a century since they were made. Even though I will not be there in person, I am delighted that my daughter Shweta will be in Nantes to represent me at the festival.”
Shweta Bachchan states, “I am delighted to travel to Nantes for the Festival des 3 Continents to present some of my father Amitabh Bachchan’s milestone films at such a distinguished festival. This is a special occasion for me as I have the opportunity, for the first time, to represent my father, on an international platform. I would like to thank the Film Heritage Foundation for their exceptional commitment and ability in showcasing classic Indian cinema and drawing audiences back to the big screen when no one had faith that this would be possible. I saw the phenomenal success of “Bachchan Back to the Beginning” – the retrospective they curated on a massive scale to celebrate my father’s 80th birthday last year. Many of us in the family were watching his films on the big screen for the first time and we were overwhelmed. The films being screened in Nantes cover varied genres that will give the audiences at the festival the opportunity to see my father’s remarkable versatility as an actor.”
Festival des 3 Continents offers feature films from Africa, Latin America and Asia and screens, in the fiction and documentary films segment.
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