By Utpal Borpujari / New Delhi
Noted director Shaji N Karun’s latest Malayalam feature film “Olu” and Aditya Suhas Jambhale Marathi short film “Kharvas” will open the prestigious Indian Panorama section of the 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), to be held in Goa during November 20-28.
Hindi films “Padmaavat”, “Tiger Zinda Hai” and “Raazi” and Telugu biopic of the late superstar Savitri, titled “Mahanati” represents the Mainstream section within the Indian Panorama.
Some of the notable selections are Jayaraj’s Malayalam film “Bhayanakam”, Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Malayalam satire “Ee Maa Yove”, superstar Mammooty-starrer Tamil film “Peranbu” and singer Arijit Singh’s directorial debut “Sa” in Bengali.
The Indian Panorama feature and non-feature selections, chosen by juries headed by veteran Rahul Rawail and Vinod Ganatra respectively, were announced on Wednesday. Out of the feature film selections, two each will represent India in the International Competition and Debut film competitions, while one will be chosen for competition in the ICFT-UNESCO prize.
The four Mainstream films were selected by an Internal Committee of the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) based on the recommendations of Film Federation of India (FFI) and the Film Producers Guild.
The 22 Feature Films and 4 Mainstream films selected in the Indian Panorama 2018 is as follows:
| S No | Title of the Film | Language | Director |
| 1 | Olu
(Opening film) |
Malayalam | Shaji N Karun |
| 2 | Nagarkirtan | Bengali | Kaushik Ganguly |
| 3 | Sa | Bengali | Arijit Singh |
| 4 | Uma | Bengali | Srijit Mukherji |
| 5 | Abyakto | Bengali | Arjun Dutta |
| 6 | Uronchondi | Bengali | Abhishek Saha |
| 7 | October | Hindi | Shoojit Sircar |
| 8 | Bhor | Hindi | Kamakhya Narayan Singh |
| 9 | Sinjar | Jasari | Pampally |
| 10 | Walking With The Wind | Ladakhi | Praveen Morchhale |
| 11 | Bhayanakam | Malayalam | Jayaraj |
| 12 | Makkana | Malayalam | Raheem Khader |
| 13 | Poomaram | Malayalam | Abrid Shine |
| 14 | Sudani From Nigeria | Malayalam | Zakariya |
| 15 | Ee Maa Yove | Malayalam | Lijo Jose Pellissery |
| 16 | Dhappa | Marathi | Nipun Avinash Dharmadhikari |
| 17 | Aamhi Doghi | Marathi | Pratima Joshi |
| 18 | To Let | Tamil | Chezhiyan Ra |
| 19 | Baaram | Tamil | Priya Krishnaswamy |
| 20 | Periyerum Perumal BA.BL | Tamil | Mari Selvaraj |
| 21 | Peranbu | Tamil | Ram |
| 22 | Paddayi | Tulu | Abhaya Simha |
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| 23 | Mahanati | Telugu | Nagashwin |
| 24 | Tiger Zinda Hai | Hindi | Ali Abbas Zafar |
| 25 | Padmaavat | Hindi | Sanjay Leela Bhansali |
| 26 | Raazi | Hindi | Meghna Gulzar |
List of Non – Feature Films
| S No | Title of the Film | Language | Director |
| 1 | Kharvas
(Opening film) |
Marathi | Aditya Suhas Jambhale |
| 2 | Sampurak | Bengali | Prabal Chakraborty |
| 3 | Naach Bhikari Naach | Bhojpuri | Jainendra Dost & Shilpi Gulati |
| 4 | Decoding Shankar | English | Deepti Sivan |
| 5 | Gyamo-Queen Of the Mountains | English | Gautam Pandey & Doel Trivedy |
| 6 | The World’s Most Famous Tiger | English | S Nalla Muthu |
| 7 | Bunkar: The last of the Varanasi weavers | English | Satyaprakash Upadhyay |
| 8 | Monitor | Hindi | Hari Viswanath |
| 9 | Nani Teri Morni | Hindi | Akash Aditya Lama |
| 10 | Burning | Hindi | Sanoj VS |
| 11 | Sword of Liberty | Malayalam | Shiny Jacob Benjamin |
| 12 | Midnight Run | Malayalam | Remya Raj |
| 13 | Lasyam | Malayalam | Vinod Mankara |
| 14 | Happy Birthday | Marathi | Medhpranav Babasaheb Powar |
| 15 | Na bole wo Haram | Marathi | Nitesh Vivek Patankar |
| 16 | Silent Scream | Marathi | Prasanna Ponde |
| 17 | Yes, I am Mauli | Marathi | Suhas Jahagirdar |
| 18 | Pamphlet | Marathi | Shekhar Bapu Rankhambe |
| 19 | Aai Shappath | Marathi | Gautam Vaze |
| 20 | Bhar Dupari | Marathi | Swapnil Vasant Kapure |
| 21 | Malai | Oriya | Rajdeep Paul & Sarmistha Maiti |