Amitabh Bachchan films to be screened at France's Festival des 3 Continents

The 45th edition of Frances Festival des 3 Continents has set a film retrospective on Indian screen icon Amitabh Bachchan the organisers said on MondayThe film gala will run in Nantes from November 24 to December 3The segment titled Amitabh Bachchan Big B Forever will showcase nine films from the 1970s and 1980s starring the legendary actor Trishul Amar Akbar Anthony Satte Pe Satta Sholay Don Kabhi Kabhie Deewaar Kaala Patthar and AbhimaanThe retrospective is being conducted in partnership with the Film Heritage Foundation FHF and with the support of the French Embassy in India Bachchan said he is pleased to hear that FHF is copresenting a selection of nine of his early films at the Festival des 3 Continents one of the oldest and most reputed film festivalsMany 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 SippyI 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 the 81yearold star said in a statementShivendra Singh Dungarpur director FHF said the foundation is proud to have its name associated with the Amitabh Bachchan Big B Forever retrospective On Bachchans 80th birthday last year the Mumbaibased organisation also hosted a fourday national event Bachchan Back To The BeginningWe had presented an eclectic selection of Indian classics in the Indian Autumn stream of the festival last year and saw the enthusiastic response to the films from the festival audienceWe would like to thank Jerome Baron the artistic director of the festival for giving us another opportunity this year to showcase nine Amitabh Bachchan films spanning a period from 1973 to 1982 when Mr Bachchan was at the peak of his career at the festival this year Dungarpur saidJerome Baron artistic director Festival Des 3 Continents said the film gala finds its inspiration by combining curiosity for contemporary cinema with the classics And Amitabh Bachchan is precisely as he continues a career that began fifty years ago the living and iconic embodiment of a link between the past and present of popular Hindi cinema He is an on screen unique performer and what no other actor has ever been including in the history of European cinema Baron added Festival Des 3 Continents will also host the world premiere of The Real Superstar a 68minute experimental documentary on Bachchan by French filmmaker Cedric DupireThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever