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'The Man Who Knew Infinity' to be opening film; Over 7,000 delegates register
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PANAJI
The 46th edition of the International Festival will kick off with actor Anil Kapoor doing the honours at the Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Stadium at Bambolim on Friday evening.
The 12th edition of the festival to be held in Goa -- with more than 7,000 delegate registrations received -- will feature 187 films from 89 countries including 47 of the Indian Panorama section.
While ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ directed by Matthew Brown a film on the 1913 self-taught Indian mathematical genius Ramanajun and his friendship with G H Hardy who helped reveal the mathematics genius to the world will be the opening film, this year’s biggest Argentinean box office hit, The Clan (El Clan) will be the Closing Film of the festival.
Academy Award winner director, Tom Hooper’s film ‘The Danish Girl’ will be the festival’s mid fest film.
“We have personally inspected and reviewed the preparations at different venues which include arrangements for the opening and closing ceremonies, opening film, Indian Panorama section and arrangements for delegates and media in terms of hospitality and logistics,” Secretary Information and Broadcasting Government of India Sunil Arora said. The festival will be opened by Actor Anil Kapoor on November 20 and brought to a close by composer A R Rahman on November 30.
