Faculty of Arts
organized the 5th Kaveri Film Festival from 26 to 28 November 2019.
The Film Festival was started in 2015 with an objective to make students
understand and appreciate world and Indian cinema and learn life lessons
through films.
This year’s Film
Festival showcased films like Black Swan, The Miracle Worker and Gafla.
Each film screening was followed by an activity involving students.
Commemorating
the 70th Constitution Day on
26 November 2019, a documentary titled ‘The
Making of Indian Constitution’ was shown to the audience. A short
discussion took place after the screening, on the efforts and thought process involved
in the making our Constitution. In addition, Chaitrali Kshirsagar, student from SYBA, recited the Preamble of the
Constitution.
This was followed by screening of the movie Black Swan. The film
highlights psychological condition of a ballerina who struggles to prove her
mettle on stage. After the screening, students analyzed the film and discussed
the portrayal of the protagonist’s mental disorder.
On 27 November, The Miracle Worker, a 2000 classic, was
showcased. The movies depicts Anne
Sullivan’s struggle to draw the blind and deaf Helen Keller out of her dark and
lonely world. Audience discussed the life lessons learnt from the movie.
On 28 November,
a Hindi film titled ‘Gafla’ was
screened. The movie shows the working of Indian stock exchange, the infamous
stock market scam of 1992 and how the scam affected the lives of common investors.
The activities
followed by each film screening were finely executed by Soham Jadhav, student
from SYBA. All the films received great appreciation from the students. Their
enthusiasm and active participation made the film festival a success.
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