High Commission of India

Accra, Ghana

PRESS RELEASE

Indian Films Enthral Ghanaian Audiences at Silverbird

Ghanaian friends are not strangers to Indian cinema, known popularly as Bollywood. For decades, Indian movies have been shown in cinema halls across the country. There are many cultural facets reflected through Indian cinema which receive an emotional response from Ghanaian friends because of the expansive cultural affinities between the two peoples despite geographical distance.

With a view to reinforcing these cultural bonds between the two countries of Ghana and India, the Indian High Commission in Accra, with generous support from Indian companies based in Ghana, has hosted an Indian Film Festival, and brought six Indian films to Silverbird from 2 to 4 April 2016. These Hindi films - Chalte Chalte, Paheli, Pinjar, Sholay, Taal and Hum Saath Saath Hain - sub- titled in English, have been screened for general public, with free admission. The films have been widely appreciated by Ghanaian audiences, who have thronged the Accra Mall to watch them. The films - some serious, some sombre and others light comedy - thus belonging to different genre, have all presented various aspects of the rich Indian cultural panaroma, traditions and history.

The High Commission of India conveys its appreciation to the Silverbird cinema and also to the sponsors - Airtel; Sethi Steel; B-5 Plus; and Delhi Public School - without whose spontaneous and generous support the Film Festival would not have been possible.

High Commission of India hopes that the festival has succeeded in its broad objective of further strengthening the cultural relations in particular, and bilateral relations in general, between the two countries.