RSS-backed body's 1st film festival in Lucknow from Saturday, to showcase 'Bhartiyata'

Lucknow, Awadh Chitra Sadhna, an RSS-backed outfit, is set to organise its first two-day film festival here from November 16 to promote values of the Sangh and showcase issues rooted in 'Bhartiyata', an RSS functionary said on Friday. RSS-backed body's 1st film festival in Lucknow from Saturday, to showcase 'Bhartiyata' The film festival, being organised in association with Lucknow's Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, has received entries from across the country in categories such as documentary, short film, campus film, all bordering on issues like women empowerment, employment generation, social harmony, environment, future Bharat, tribal society, rural development and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, Ashok Dubey said. This film festival being held for the first time in Lucknow following the registration of the Awadh Chitra Sadhna earlier this year will have feature films conveying different shades, he added. "For instance, there is an entry titled 'Matar Paneer' – a film made by a director from the Valmiki community depicting through a storyline the struggles of a marginalised community when it decides to have 'matar-paneer', a dish it has heard about for long but never tasted," Govind Pandey, who heads the Awadh Chitra Sadhna, told PTI.