‘Pappu Ki Pugdundi’ to open at National Children Film Festival

Mumbai: For half a century,Children’s Film Society India (CFSI) has been engaged in providing value based entertainment to children through the powerful medium of films.

CFSI announces National Children Film Festival which will be held in Delhi, from the 14th to 16th November 2014, coinciding with Children’s Day celebrations. 14th November, is of special significance to the children of the entire country being Children’s Day. The ‘National Film Festival’ will be held every alternate year just like International Children’s Film Festival. This year the theme of the festival is ‘Swachhta’

The Festival will be held at the Siri Fort Auditorium and opening ceremony will take place on the 14th of November, 2014 by the dignitaries from the Ministry including Mr. Anupam Kher and Ms. Sania Mirza are invited including children’s from various schools.

Cultural programs will be held followed by the film ‘Pappu Ki Pugdundi’, a CFSI’s newest film directed by Seemaa Desai will be premiered. The movie has been extensively shot in Himachal Pradesh and stars Hardik Khanna as Pappu, also stars Atul Parchure as Genie and Amitabh Bhattacharya and Jaswinder Gardner as Pappu’s parents.

The movie also has a song by Mika Singh, who has lent his voice for the first time in a Children’s film.

The opening events would have several cultural programs by children which includes sand art and Shiamak Davar’s troop performing on the theme of ‘Swachhta’.

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn and Sonakshi Sinha have already extended their best wishes to CFSI and Seemaa Desai. Similarly many other celebrities are willingly participating and thus spreading their word in making NCFF an event to be reminisced.