Actress Sheena Chohan will host the 45th Intern-ational Film Festival of India (IFFI), which kicks off here Thursday. Two legends of Indian cinema megastar Amitabh Bachchan and superstar Rajinikanth will share the dais at the open-ing ceremony.The festival will conclude Nov 30.
“Happy to announce that I am selected to host the prestigious 45th Interna-tional Film Festival of India, where @SrBachchan and Rajnikanth Sir are the chief guests (sic),” Sheena tweeted Wednesday.
Amitabh will attend the fest as the chief guest, while Rajinikanth will be con-ferred with Centenary Award for Indian Film Per-sonality of the Year. The fest would screen 179 films from 75 countries across different categories which include World Cinema (61 films), Masters-trokes (11 films), Festival Kaleidoscope (20 films), Soul of Asia (7 films), Documentaries (6 films), and Animated Films (6 films).
Besides, the Indian Pano-rama section would include 41 feature and non-feature films. The northeast being the focus region of the festival, IFFI 2014 would be showcasing 7 films from there.
A special section of films based retrospec-tives, and Masterclasses/workshops would also form a part of IFFI 2014.(Ians)
