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MUMBAI: Veteran actor Dharmendra received the
Lifetime Achievement award and Rishi Kapoor
was acclaimed for his significant contribution
to cinema for over 35 years at the concluding
ceremony of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images'
(MAMI) 10th International Film Festival, Mumbai.
The
first Global Lifetime Achievement award was
given to Carlos Saura, a renowned Spanish filmmaker,
while lyricist-filmmaker Gulzar was conferred
an award for outstanding contribution to Indian
film music.
 Acknowleding
the award, Kapoor said: ''Usually film industry
personalities do not reveal their age, but I
want to say that I have not been working for
25 years - I have been working for 35 years
and I am proud of that.''
On
receiving the award, Gulzar said: ''Each artist
needs this kind of reassurance to prove that
whatever he has been doing is right.''
Speaking
to the media, MAMI festival chairman Shyam Benegal
expressed confidence that this festival had
now come to stay in the metropolis and the current
edition had been better than the previous ones.
A
total of 140 films from 45 countries were showcased
in the festival, held from 6-13 March. They
included 92 films showcased in the Global Vision
section. The foreign and Indian retrospectives
were devoted to films by Andrej Wajda and
Ritwik Ghatak, respectively. The country in
focus was China and the filmmaker in focus was
Carlos Saura.
The
chief guest of the event, evergreen Bollywood
star Dev Anand, senior filmmaker Yash Chopra,
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and Shyam Benegal gave
away the awards.
The
Kodak award for technical excellence in sound
recording was presented to Hitendra Ghosh who
has been in the industry for more than 25 years
and has worked on about 1,800 films.
In
a new concept called Dimensions Mumbai, five-minute
films based on different aspects of Mumbai were
showcased by aspiring filmmakers under 25 years
of age. A total of 82 entries had been received
for this section.
S
Srinivasan's Vapsi, based on the hardships
a young aspiring actor faces in Mumbai, bagged
the top prize while Aishwarya S got the second
prize for Mumbai Half Marathon and Ganesh
More bagged the third prize for a film on life
in Mumbai.
The
awards carrying cash components of Rs 100,000,
Rs 30,000 and Rs 20,000 were sponsored by Jaya
Bachchan, and given away by her daughter-in-law
Aishwarya. The special jury awards were given
to Handful of Sky by Neha Singh and Patri
by Akshara Prabhakar.
In
the Indian feature film competition, Darsheel
Safary was awarded for playing the dyslexic
child Ishaan Awasthi in Taare Zameen Par,
Swathee Sen for playing Janki in Antardwand
while both the best film and International Federation
of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) awards were bagged
by the Marathi film Tingya by Mangesh
Hadawale on the delicate issue of farmers' suicides.
Frozen,
which is the first full-length feature film
to be shot in Ladakh, won the Special Jury Award
for its director Shivaji Chandrabhushan.
Tina
Ambani, representing Reliance Anil Dhirubhai
Ambani Group that sponsored the Festival, MAMI
Trustee Kiran Shantaram, Manmohan Shetty, festival
artistic director Sudhir Nandgaonkar, Yash Chopra,
Ranbir Kapoor along with mother Neetu Kapoor,
Indian Documentary Producers' Association president
Jahnu Barua, Amit Khanna of Reliance Entertainment,
filmmaker Vinod Pande and several other celebrities
were present on the occasion. The event was
conducted by television star Gaurav Kapoor,
and singer Mansi Scott also performed at the
function with English and Hindi songs.
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