nagpur v shantaram continues to be a name to reckon with for producing and directing films that carried the message of maintaining amity among communities and giving a new dimension to filmmaking by taking up various historical and mythological stories the shantaram touch is evident in the films he madethe twoday v shantaram film festival titled bapu ka bioscope organized by orange city cultural foundation occf pune film foundation and nagpur municipal corporation was inaugurated by former supreme court judge vs sirpurkar at kalidas sabhagruh of persistent systems it park gayatri nagar on saturday dr chandrashekar meshram chairman of occf and additional municipal commissioner ravindra thakre were present samar nakhate who was a child artiste in do ankhein barah haath was specially present on the occasionon the first day two marathi films shejari and kunku were screened before a packed auditorium shejari displayed the beautiful relationship between two neighbours who are hindu and muslim and how they remain together despite facing many obstacles in life commenting on shejari after the film was screened nakhate said shantaram perfectly displayed the emotions and value of relationship between humans he knew how to apply the studio system in his films where every artiste was equally acknowledged and appreciated this is in stark contrast with todays starsshantaram created a space in his movies which allowed the characters and script to breathe we used to call him anna on sets because we were like a family and a community he said in the second half kunku was played which narrated the story of a young woman who was forcibly married to an elderly manit was shantaram who introduced first trolley camera for picturization colour graphics and animation in his movie jambu kaka he was one of the early filmmakers who was the flagbearer of making movies on sensitive social issues and humanism one of the songs of his film ae maalik tere bande hum offers a glimpse of his capability to put emotions into musicon sunday his hindi movies navrang do ankhen barah haath and jhanak jhanak payal baje will be screened from 10am onwards