The First Pravasi Film Festival came to an end with the presence of Basu Chatterjee, Rahul Rawail, Satish Kaushik, Sandeep Marwah Manoj Bajpai, Meera Nair and many other dignities who all were there to mark there presence to give industry’s recognition to this first Pravasi film festival at Habitat Centre in New Delhi.

LIFE GOES ON by Sangita Dutta won the best feature film, SHOR directed by D.K.Krishna and Raj Nidimoru best short film and FLYING SIKH was declared as best Short Film Fiction .Around 30 films in total were screened in the festival in feature and non feature category. CHEHRE by Rohit Kaushik was the closing film of the ceremony.

“I am ready to support this wonderful venture which has brought many Indians together once again at the Holy Land of India” said chief guest Mrs Preneet Kaur, State Minister of External Affairs, Government of India while addressing the audience. “I invite all NRI’s to Uttra Khand a place full of natural beauty to utilize as natural sets for their next films” said Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal, the Chief Minister of UttraKhand.

“Marwah Studios would like to offer all its facilities to NRI film makers to come and make films in India and we are also ready for the joint ventures” said Sandeep Marwah the producer of largest number of Short films in the world while thanking Anil Joshi the festival Director for a wonderful initiative. [ Asian News Agency ]