Indian Visions: Indian Film Festival of Washington, DC (www.indianvisions.org) will soon take place from November 13 through November 16. The opening night film is none other than Rock On!! Director Abhishek Kapoor will be attending the opening night to present his film and to interact with the DC audiences.

“I’m sure DC film enthusiasts will enjoy viewing Rock On!! at the Indian Visions Film Festival,” says Amanda Sodhi, Program Coordinator of Indian Visions. “And…” Amanda adds with a smile, “…the fact that Abhishek is attending will bring that extra bit of magik to our festival.”

Looks like DC film enthusiasts are going to have a magik-filled and rocking time at the film festival!

Other celebrity guests who will be attending the film festival and interacting with audiences include Brahmanand Singh, Ashish Avikunthak and Spandan Banerjee. In addition, Harjant Gill, Mona Kumar, Leena Jayaswal and Indira Somani will be leading a panel discussion on the theme of “identity” after the screening of their short films.

Sukumar Srinivasan, the Executive Director of Indian Visions, comments, “Our festival will present several DC premiere films. Designed to educate, entertain and provoke, the programming includes a rich array of feature films and short films in English, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam and Marathi, running the gamut from narratives to documentaries and representing different regions and genres.”

In addition to Abhishek Kapoor’s Rock On!!, other feature films being showcased at the Indian Visions Film Festival are Welcome to Sajjanpur(Shyam Benegal), Naalu Pennungal/Four Women (Adoor Gopalakrishnan),Prapancha Pash/A Throw of Dice (Franz Osten), A Wednesday (Neeraj Pandey), Valu: The Wild Bull (Umesh Kulkarni), Mumbai Meri Jaan(Nishikant Kamat) and Nirakar Chhaya/Shadows Formless (Ashish Avikunthak).

Documentary films Pancham Unmixed (Brahmanand Singh) and Shot in Bombay (Liz Mermin) are also being screened.

Short films which will be screened at the film festival include: The Fiction(Spandan Banerjee), AIDS JaaGo (Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Farhan Akhtar and Santosh Sivan), Midnight Lost and Found (Atul Sabharwal),Rewind (Atul Taishete), Haravele Indradhanush/The Lost Rainbow (Dhiraj Meshram), Antaral/End Note (Ashish Avikunthak), Beware Dogs (Spandan Banerjee), The Private Life of Albert Pinto (Sidharth Singh), Between Two Worlds (Mona Kumar), Crossing Lines (Leena Jayaswal and Indira Somani),Milind Soman Made Me Gay (Harjant Gill), Quamar/Working to Live (Preeya Nair), Super 30 (Christopher Mitchell) and Wings of Evolution (Ramesh Mourthy and Raghu Jeganathan).

Rock On (Image Courtesy - Dale Bhagwagar Media Group)

Rock On (Image Courtesy - Dale Bhagwagar Media Group)