Exclusive Reportage from Le Salon du Cinema (Cinema Fair) in Paris

Third Salon du Cinema was held in Paris, 16th - 18th January, 2009. The event presented a unique Exhibition and Fair that was specially held to honor the World Cinema. A special newsperson from the Luxemag magazine attended the Salon at the opening day to report. The Indian Cinema was the focus of attention of the French Cinema Public this time.

The star turn of the Fair was the news conference with the Big Daddy, really big (of 1,91m height) star of the Indian Cinema, Mr Amitabh Bachchan. He personally presented his best works to the French audience. It was supposed that the Fair would also be seen by Mr Amitabh's son Abhishek Bachchan and his glorious daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai. Though, most to the regret of hundreds of fans of the Miss World'1994, only the head of this starry and celebrated family arrived from London. By the official reports, the scheduled functions involving Aishwarya Rai were canceled in view of the big Hollywood project, though at the backstage they rumored that the darling of the Indian (and not only!) audience was expecting a child. The visitors were so far disappointed with the above and they had to do with the celebrity of the Indian-French Musical "Bharatti" by Bhavana Pavni, along with Zara Adams who was supposed to be a Bond girl in the next movie, as the Salon Administrators assured us.

A White Night Ceremony was opened at the night of January 16 to 17 with the retrospective show of ‘Sarkar Raj', ‘Black', ‘Sholay', the best works of the Bollywood Legend.

Approximately 400 movie critics, distributors and experts were invited to this ceremony.

The Indian Cinema Day was organized by the sponsorship of the Euro-India Group EIEBG.

Traditionally the Salon widely presented works of French cinematographers, as well as representatives of quite exotic cinema professions who occasionally introduce the volunteers to   the tough trade of stuntmen. The French public was lucky to get to know with the silent cinema stars, like owls, storks and even hawks that were titivating with pleasure and paying no attention to camera flashes. Yet, the most adventurous could enjoy the make-up workshop, where an ordinary person had a chance to easily turn into the dreadful vampire.