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Brisbane Masala Film Festival
Monday,
July
03,
2006
Melbourne
(UNI):
By
organising
the
annual
Bollywood
Masala
Indian
Film
Festival
for
the
second
successive
year
in
Brisbane,
the
capital
of
the
Queensland
state
is
showing
symptoms
of
becoming
the
latest
Australian
city
to
catch
Bollywood
fever.
The
Brisbane
event
is
screening
four
of
Festival
patron
Yash
Chopra's
movies.
''Indian
films
have
come
a
long
way
with
their
technical
advances,
while
retaining
the
core
of
Indian
values
and
emotions
which
are
the
basic
diet
for
viewers
of
Indian
films,''
Indian
film
patriarch
told
the
Courier
Mail
newspaper.
''What
is
gratifying
is
that
while
some
of
these
films
are
different
and
made
for
mature
audiences,
they
are
all
ingrained
with
human
values
and
emotions.
This
is
what
makes
the
world
go
around,''
Yash
Chopra
added.
The Bollywood film festival in Brisbane is now considered an integral and important part of the local cinema calendar as it is being organised for the second year in running. The timing of the aptly-named Masala Film Festival has coincided with the screening of the Hrithik Roshan starrer 'Krrish' in a number of Queensland cinemas. Seven Indian films are to be shown in the festival being organised by Mitu Lange of MG Distribution. Siddarth Anand's 'Salaam Namaste' is likely to attract largest chunk of Queenslanders. Others films being shown at the Brisbane festival include 'Parineeta', 'Swades', 'Bunty Aur Babli' and 'Veer Zaara'.
The Melbourne-based company has made name in the recent years for organising making of a number of Indian television serials, films and advertisements in Australia. The Southern, and larger, counterparts of Brisbane - Melbourne and Sydney are already considered serious contenders for the unofficial title of overseas capital of spicy Indian movies. While Melbourne, which hosted the making of 'Salaam Namaste', is the venue of an international photographic exhibition on Indian movies; Sydney would soon witness the making of the largest Indian film outside India.
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