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The Bollywood actor, Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Zero, may have been criticized by the critics and turned out to be a box office failure, but the film will be the closing film of the Beijing International Film Festival. The festival, which runs from April 13 to 20, will open with the opening of The Composer, a future Sino-Kazakh co-production.
The decision to program Zero in such an important niche underscores the growing success of Indian films in the Chinese public, reports varieties.com.
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Directed by Aanand L. Rai, the film in Hindi released last December. He presents SRK as a person with dwarfism in a love triangle with a scientist suffering from cerebral palsy (actress Anushka Sharma) and a famous actress (Katrina Kaif).
The Composer is the first film of a cooperation agreement between China and Kazakhstan under President Xi Jinping's infrastructure strengthening project, the Belt and Road Initiative.
Conducted by Kazakhstan, Xirzat Yahup, he describes the life of a Chinese composer stranded in Almaty in the 1940s and who makes friends with a Kazakh composer.
Read also: Akshay vs. John vs. Ajay: Who's the King of Bollywood Patriotic Cinema?
The festival's programming is a mix of Hollywood blockbusters (including the five films of "Jason Bourne" and the four titles of "Mad Max") tribute to filmmakers including Akira Kurosawa and Alfonso Cuaron (with screenings of Gravity "and" Children of Men "); and lesser known works from countries such as Indonesia and India.
(This story was published from a wired source without modification of the text.Only the title has been modified.)
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Apr 04, 2019 15:59 PM IST
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