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Icon Business Forum's 'The Outsiders Film Festival'

 

If you are an aspiring filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter or actor; the OUTSIDERS FILM festival is where you should have been this Wednesday – the 22nd of November, 2023. 

With an ensemble of 8 short- films; writer- Tarun Agarwal, under his prolific start-up company Icon Business Forum, organised this initiative along with director- Param Kalra at The Veda Factory, Andheri. The event was anchored by a content creator and influencer, Chandni Somaya. 

With Tarun Agarwal’s short film 'Honesty Weds Dishonesty' starting off the event, the event soon became a crowd-puller as many notable film-makers such as Sangeeta Babani, Vinita Nanda, Amit Be Nandita Puri, National Award-winning director -Iqbal Niyazi, Param Kalra and Tarun Agarwal screened their films. 

The short films included Honesty Weds Dishonesty, Dhuaan, Khidkiyaan, Happy Got Lucky, Favourite Chai, Mulaqat, CH20 and Alfaaz. 



L    List of films Screened

1.     Honesty Weds Dishonesty – Tarun Agarwal – starring Mohammad Ali Shaikh

2.     Dhuaan – Iqbal Niyazi – starring Zarina Wahab

3.     Khidkiyaan – Iqbal Niyazi starring Anjan Srivastav and Nikhat Khan

4.     Happy Got Lucky – Param Kalra starring Vidit Sharma, Bushra Shaikh and Anjali Krishna

5.     Favourite Chai – Param Kalra starring Mandi Srivastav and Kushwant Walia

6.     Mulaqat – Dilip Bhadwaj starring Raju Kher and Nikita Bisht

7.     CH20 – Virag Dhulia starring Karthik Shankanarayana

8.     Alfaaz – Thomas A Xavier starring Sangeeta Babani     

Besides this, there were 3 trailers that were also shown.  The event was ensued by many 

talks such as Anusha Srinivas Iyer, Rahul Kapoor, Teena Kaur, Manveer Gurjar, Amit Behl, Vinod Pande, Nandita Puri and J Brandon Hill, etc. 

The event was held at a Mumbai-based creative space for artists where they can explore and experiment with their art forms – ‘Veda Factory’ in Andheri. Hoping for many more such events in the future, film festivals are becoming more and more of a hot spot for talented folk.   

 

 


 

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