Marathi International Film & Theatre Awards (MIFTA) has now become a right platform for Marathi artistes and technicians to prove their mettle. Since last year Producer -director Mahesh Manjrekar and Abhijeet Patil of Raja Rani Travels have together opened this opportunity for them through MIFTA, which first took place in Dubai. This year their award ceremony will be held in London in a big way.

Prior to that MIFTA have organised a week long festival of selected 10 Marathi films and 10 dramas nominated for this purpose. The festival which has opened today at 4 pm with recently released Marathi drama ‘Sukhanshi Bhandato Aamhi’ at Ravindra Natya Mandir and with a Marathi film ‘Sumbran’ which was screened at 4.30 pm at P.L. Deshpande Academy’s Mini Theatre. This will be followed by another Marathi film ‘Gajar’ at 7.30 pm in Mini Theatre and with another popular drama Drama ‘Aaltun Paaltun’ at 8pm in the auditorium. From tomorrow onwards till 21st August the schedule will be as follows: