Entertainment Desk :
The 27th Kolkata International Film Festival has been postponed due to the surge in Covid-19 cases in West Bengal, India. The development comes just a day after the organisers said they have decided to go ahead with the event by
limiting the capacity of the
venues to 50 per cent. However, the organisers postponed it due to safety issues on Wednesday. They added that the new date of the festival will be announced soon.
The chairperson of the festival Raj Chakraborty and his wife popular film actress Subhashree Ganguly tested positive
for Covid-19 on Tuesday.
The one-week event was set to open with Satyajit Ray’s 1970
classic Aranyer Din Ratri and feature 200 shows of 180 films
in 10 different theatres across the state capital.
