HOME | SCOOP!! & NEWS | HAPPENINGS Aamir Khan to be felicitated at Asian film festival06th Oct 2008 09.30 IST By Agencies The Asian Film Foundation which is organising the seventh Third Eye Asian Film Festival in Mumbai from October 16 will felicitate Aamir Khan and Madhur Bhandarkar for their achievements. Chairman of the foundation Kiran Shantaram told reporters that Aamir will be honoured for his acclaimed directorial debut film Taare Zameen Par while Madhur will be felicitated for winning national award for best director thrice. 
As many as 80 films from 20 countries will be screened from October 16 to 23 at three different venues -- Chavan centre, Plaza cinema and Fun Republic. Apart from Aamir and Madhur, Korean director Park Kwang Su will receive Asian film culture award and P K Nair, former director of National film Archive will get the Satyajit Ray memorial award. Festival director Sudhir Nandgaonkar said seven to eight films have been selected for the competition section in which cash awards will be given to debutante director and best short film. In the Asian Masters section, seven films of Satyajit Ray will be screened. Apart from this, homage will be paid to Youssef Shahine, the Egyptian director who died recently, with three films. Besides, tributes would be paid to late Vijay Tendulkar by screening films written by him like 'Manthan', 'Ardha Satya' and 'Umbartha'. Filmmaker in focus section will present Israeli director Dan Wolman's six films and Korean director Kim Ki Duk's five films and the retrospective section will present six films of Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita who died in 1999. Related view Aamir Khan videos and wallpapers view Madhur Bhandarkar videos and wallpapers view Taare Zameen Par trailers movie clips and wallpapers | ALSO READ scoop ~ Dil Kabaddi – Movie Preview ~ Youngsters need to understand Islam in the right way: Shahrukh Khan ~ Terror could not stall this film's shoot ~ When Asin got shoes worth Rs 2 lakh! ~ Who inspired Aamir Khan's look in 'Ghajini'? ~ Nayantara returns to home turf ~ Indian model Diana Penty is the new face of Maybelline ~ Terror fallout – Ayesha Takia postpones marriage, Tusshar Kapoor cancels party ( more in scoop ) happenings ~ Jiah Khan at her sexiest on the cover of Maxim! ~ Aamir Khan on the cover of GQ ( more in happenings ) AKC HOT INDEX ECARDS > Halloween, New Year, Diwali, Birthday, Valentines, Love, Christmas MOVIES Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Sorry Bhai, Yuvvraaj, Dostana, Dasvidaniya, Golmaal Returns, Fashion, Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi, EMI, Heroes, Roadside Romeo, Kidnap, Drona, Dil Kabaddi , Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi , Rang Rasiya , Meerabai Not Out MUSIC Ghajini , Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi celebs » wallpapers » the celeb A-Z who's in » Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Ranbir Kapoor | Harman Baweja | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan | Imran Khan | Shahrukh Khan | Salman Khan | Aamir Khan | Hrithik Roshan | Akshay Kumar | Zayed Khan | Saif Ali Khan | John Abraham | Shahid Kapur | Kareena Kapoor | Vidya Balan | Priyanka Chopra | Rani Mukherjee | Mallika Sherawat | Bipasha Basu | Preity Zinta | Kajol | Neha Dhupia | Sameera Reddy | Juhi Chawla | Karisma Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit | Chitrangada Singh | Payal Rohatgi | Sneha Ullal | Mahima Chaudhary | Meghna Naidu | Gayatri Joshi | Rakhi Sawant | Bhumika Chawla | Lisa Ray | Dimple Kapadia | Ayesha Takia | Dia Mirza | Sushmita Sen | Amisha Patel | Esha Deol | Amrita Rao | Amrita Arora | Genelia D'Souza | Arjun Rampal | Amitabh Bachchan | Vivek Oberoi | Raima Sen | Riya Sen | Rekha | Rimi Sen | Nigar Khan | Tanushree Dutta | Yana Gupta | Deepal Shaw | Shilpa Shetty | Celina Jaitley | Sonam Kapoor | Neha Oberoi | Nisha Rawal | Manjari Fadnis | Kamal Haasan | Rajnikant | Asin | Sanjay Dutt | Shahid Kapoor | Sherlyn Chopra | Farhan Akhtar | Prachi Desai | Mandira Bedi | Shahana Goswami | Konkona Sen Sharma | Kangana Ranaut | Anushka Sharma | Mugdha Godse | Masumeh Makhija | Minissha Lamba | Vidya Malvade | Malaika Arora | Shweta Kumar | | more... | 
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