The 9th Bollywood Festival
September 08, 2011
The 9th Bollywood Festival started on 2nd September 2011 in Norway gives a perfect end to the 8 day show tomorrow by giving tribute to Kishore Kumar by various singers from Bollywood. The festival is a vibrant journey through culture, dance and music of Indian cinema commonly known in the west as Bollywood. ALong with instrumental folk music, Classical Indian dance performances, modern Bollywood dance, and Bollywood ballet were also showcased. Guest of honor Sharman Joshi, mr. prem chopra and Prakash Jha from Indian Cinema graced the occasion by walking the red carpet. Presence of many other glamorous faces around the world made it a successful event.
All these main events will be held at the heart of Lorenskog, in the new magnificent state of Art purpose build building Lorenskog Hus and Cinema".
The festival kicked off with the world premier of the film "Bodyguard". This year new event “Master class” with director Prakash Jha. Widely chosen movies from Bollywood will be entertaining the 8 days festival. Few unreleased movies were also showcased like Mere Brother ki Dulhan, Shabri, bol and some successful movies like Delhi belly, Zindagi Naa Milegi doobara.
We are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Rabindrnath Tagore, A day especially devoted to Tagore. A special focus on Seminar on the burning issue of Honour Killing and Extremisms will be given by screening the film Khap” Also this year we felicitated Mr. Prem Chopra by presenting Life time Achievement Award for his astounding contribution to the Indian cinema” says festival coordinator Suchitra Pathare.