Farhan Akhtar starrer “The Fakir of Venice” will be the opening movie at the 8th Jagran Film Festival, which will start in Delhi from July 1.

The gala, to be inaugurated by veteran actor Rishi Kapoor, will be held at the Siri Fort Auditorium, said a statement.

Directed by Anand Surapur and also featuring Annu Kapoor, “The Fakir of Venice” is a drama inspired by the real life experience of filmmaker Homi Adajania of taking a fakir (saint) to Venice.

The film showcases a story of an Indian conman who is hired to find a fakir who can bury himself in sand for an installation art project in Venice. He passes off a poor slum dweller from Mumbai as the real thing, conning the European art world successfully.

The story depicts a strange relationship between two characters who are brought together to carry out a deception. To pull it off, however, they must learn to shed the layers of deceit and move towards understanding themselves, the statement read.

In the film’s poster, Farhan and Annu are seen wearing saffron clothes.

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Beginning with New Delhi, the festival will travel to 16 other cities including Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Bhopal, Ranchi, Indore, Ludhiana and Dehradun before culminating in Mumbai with the award ceremony in September. Over 130 movies will be screened.

IANS

Footwear company Bata India Limited on Monday welcomed a magisterial court order that has issued summons to the team of Bollywood movie “Jolly LLB-2”, including actors Akshay Kumar and Annu Kapoor, Director Subhash Kapoor and its producers, in a defamation case.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg, in an order last week, has issued summons to “Jolly LLB-2” producer Fox Star Studios India Private Limited, executive producer Naren Kumar, Subhash Kapoor, actors Annu Kapoor and Akshay Kumar, and others asking them to appear in court on February 22.

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Bata said that it took very serious note of the derogatory and defamatory reference to the footwear company. In a press statement, Bata stated that it has filed a criminal defamation case against the team of “Jolly LLB-2” for using derogatory remarks and defamatory reference to Bata as a brand in the first official trailer of the movie.

“The official trailer had been trending and been watched rapidly over the internet and in theatres. The brand Bata has been deliberately shown in an extremely bad taste and the dialogue was intended to convey that the brand Bata is adorned only by lower strata of society and one should feel humiliated if one wears Bata footwear,”

The court has found prima facie offence under sections 500 (defamation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code, which are made out against the accused persons and said that there is sufficient grounds to proceed against them.

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