The 54th version of India’s Goa Movie Pageant concluded Tuesday night with a tribute to Michael Douglas, who picked up the fest’s Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Cinema.
Earlier winners of the award — which organizers say celebrates people whose unparalleled contributions have enriched the cinematic panorama — embrace Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Dilip Kumar, Carlos Saura, Krzysztof Zanussi, and Wong Kar-wai.
“It’s an incredible honor to obtain this award. It’s a profession life achievement. After I heard in regards to the award, my household and I had been elated,” Douglas stated. The veteran Primary Intuition actor was joined by his spouse, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and son Dylan Douglas.
Later, throughout his acceptance speech, Douglas touched on world affairs, highlighting the function he believes cinema can play in bringing folks collectively. Douglas additionally gave a shoutout to what he described as a few of his favourite Indian movies, together with RRR, Om Shanti Om, and The Lunchbox.
“Cinema is likely one of the few mediums that has the ability to unite and remodel us. It transcends divisions, whether or not that be geography, race, language, and even time,” AP reported he stated in his acceptance speech. “At the moment, our international language of cinema is extra significant than ever,” Douglas added.
Elsewhere on the eve, the pageant’s competitors awards had been handed out. Persian pic Limitless Borders took the Golden Peacock award for one of the best movie. Directed by Abbas Amini, the movie follows Ahmad, an exiled instructor dwelling in a small village with largely ethnic Baloch alongside the Iranian border with Afghanistan. He acquaints a household of unlawful Hazara refugees who’re fleeing a right away risk from the Taliban’s rise to energy. Synopsis reads: Ahmad begins to comprehend that prejudice and dogma are dictating their lives and his perspective on what is correct and what’s flawed adjustments drastically. He decides to save lots of a younger forbidden love, however that call can have dire penalties for everybody.
Bulgarian Director Stephan Komandarev took the Silver Peacock award for greatest director for his movie Blaga’s Classes. Panchayat Season 2, directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra obtained the newly launched award for the Finest Internet Sequence (OTT). The collection chronicles the lifetime of an engineering graduate who joins as a Panchayat secretary in a distant fictional village of Phulera of Uttar Pradesh attributable to a scarcity of higher job choices.
