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The fourth installment of the Rajasthani Int'l Film Festival, RIFF

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Sommendra Harsh at initial festival press conference

The fourth installment of the Rajasthani Int'l Film Festival, RIFF, will take place in the colorful pink city Jaipur, capital ofoo the historically rich Indian province of Rajasthan. Jaipur is famed for its many old palaces in a walled off old town in which all buildings are uniformly  painted in a color somewhere between pink and pale orange. One is reminded of the beautiful city of Marrakech in Morocco, also referred to affectionately as The Rose Colored City.
The festival director and founder is local native Somendra Harsh.  

       
 
RIFF  will open with NEWTON one of the big Hindi successes of 2017 and will close  with "Lipstik under my Burkha" by Prakash Jha, one of Bollywood's most politically engaged directors.  A special posthumous career award will be handed overk to the widow of great Indian character actor Om Puri, who passed away January a year ago.
 
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Vee Jay Gamliel, a noted Rajasthani Camel trainer and publisher of several Alternative Rajasthani periodicals is a special  festival guest.

 


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