Sultan & Fan head to the Busan International Film Festival

The Salman Khan starrer Sultan and Shah Rukh Khan starrer Fan will be screened at the upcoming Busan International Film Festival, which will run from October 6 to 15.

Salman Khan in and as Sultan

While Maneesh Sharma’s directorial venture Fan will be screened in the ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ section, Sultan helmed by Ali Abbar Zafar will be showcased in the ‘Open Cinema’ category. The screening of both the films will be followed by their theatrical release in South Korea.

The 21st edition of the Busan International Film Festival has a number of Indian films to look forward to  including Konkona Sengupta’s directorial debut ‘A Death in the Gunj’, ‘An Insignificant Man’, a documentary that chronicles the birth of the Aam Aadmi Party and the rise of its leader Arvind Kejriwal.

Poster of A Death in the Gunj

‘Chronicles of Hari’, which is about an actor renowned for performing female roles, will have its World Premiere at the festival. Shubhashish Bhutiani’s ‘Hotel Salvation, Irrfan’s ‘Madaari’, Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s ‘The Bait’, Vijay Jayapal’s ‘Revelations’, director Haobam Paban Kumar’s ‘Lady of the Lake’, ‘A Billion Colour Story’ by Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy, director Suman Ghosh’s ‘Mi Amor’, ‘Madly’, which has a segment by Anurag Kashyap and the short film ‘The Limit’ will also be screened at the prestigious festival.

Still from Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation)