Kangana Ranaut talks to Mayank Shekhar at Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai

Renowned filmmakers marketers and distributors all gathered today sharing their insights on the future of cinema at the first ever Jagran Cinema Summit held at JW Marriott Juhu The event kick started with the opening ceremony where Shekhar Kapur Kangana Ranaut Vinod Srivastava Sr General Manager ndash Strategy and Brand Development ndash Jagran Prakashan Ltd and Ajay Brahmatmaj inaugurated with light lamping ceremony followed by key note speech from director Shekhar Kapur where he addressed to the newage filmmakers to be storytellers utilizing digital platforms available todayldquo I am not a Man Haterrdquo speaking on her image of a feminist Kangana Ranaut expressed that she feels sorry for the state of the society due to the inequality that persists and this is the reason why feminism finds its way She spoke that a persons opinion has nothing to do with theirprofession and so as an individual she before an actress is a woman and citizen of the country with a freedom of expressionIn an another interesting panel discussion headed by Mini Mathur were joined by Madhu Mantena Founder Phantom Films Ajay Chacko Founder Arreacute Sameer Nair Former CEO Balaji Telefilms Shrishti Behl Vice President of the Film and Television Producers Guild of India amp Producer Rose Movies and Actor Vivek Oberoi where Does size matter of the screen was the focal point of getting the panels perspectives owning to their profiles Each of the panelists regarded that the size of the screen is irrelevant as long as content is enabling enough room for personal themes to resonate be it through mobiles television or big screen theatersA presentation ldquoLooking back as we look aheadrdquo by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Founder Film Heritage Foundation gave a wonderful insight on the heritage of Cinema and restoration of old Indian films Shivendra shared intriguing images from his experiences of films being stripped for extraction of silver in Pathanwadi Tragic fire at FTII that lost over 150 film negatives to how the Indian railways carried 1000s of unclaimed film prints were shared in an full excerptThe second panel discussion at the summit took a light on ldquochanges in the economics of film makingrdquo setting Bahubali as the benchmark of achieving gross hits Mukesh Bhatt expressed the drama of Bahubali as an event experience similar to how he had witnessed the charisma of MughalEAzam which was a success product of good cinematic vision Sajid Khan believes that the actual big numbers only come in when the people who usually would not come to cinemas make it to the cinemas like in case of Bahubali that was widespread like fireTowards the end of the summit Varun Dhawan joined in a conversation with Mayank Shekhar on the Future of Stardom where he shared the dilemmas he had while auditioning and the failures with no intentions of his father launching him before he made it Fans bring stardom and Content has become the star of the films is what Varun iterated to embracing StardomConcluding the event Mayank Shekhar said Future of cinema as the theme of the summit has been very well tackled with top filmmakers producers actors and distributors in each of its segment we definitely look forward to the next years installmentJagran Cinema Summit has been curated to know the perspective of films produced and the future of cinema For the consumers perspective theJagran Film Festival will be held in Mumbai between 1824th September17