The Indian Visions Indian Film Festival of Washington, DC kicked off its movie festival program with a screening of Abhishek Kapoor’s Rock On!!, an motivating movie about friendship and dreams set against the milieu of rock music. Abhishek Kapoor was presented with The Official Opening Night Selection Award at the reception following his film’s screening. He interacted with audience members at the reception.

“To see people in the auditorium reacting to the movie so positively was quite overwhelming. It was nice to meet the mixed crowd of Indian and Americans and discuss the finer details of the film with them,” mentioned Abhishek Kapoor.
Amanda Sodhi, program coordinator of the festival, further elaborates, “We are pleased that Abhishek was able to attend the festival. The audiences really enjoyed conversing with him at the reception and he very patiently answered all of their questions.”

Sukumar Srinivasan, the festival director, tells “It was wonderful to meet Mr. Kapoor and I enjoyed talking to him about his film and his experiences with filmmaking. He was very gracious and down to earth and I wish him a very successful career in films.”

“The Indian Visions festival is in its second year and I’m sure it has a bright future ahead. I believe that the Indian Visions Film Festival under the guidance of Mr. Sukumar will emerge as a leading Indian film festival in the years to come,” remarks Abhishek Kapoor.

The Indian Visions festival continued through Sunday, November 16. Other films screened included Naalu Pennungal (Adoor Gopalakrishnan), Taare Zameen Par (Aamir Khan), Prapancha Pash (Franz Osten), Valu: The Wild Bull (Umesh Kulkarni), AIDS JaaGo (Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Farhan Akhtar, Santosh Sivan), A Wednesday (Neeraj Pandey), Mumbai Meri Jaan (Nishikant Kamat), Shot in Bombay (Liz Mermin), Quamar/Working to Live (Preeya Nair), Super 30 (Christopher Mitchell), Wings of Evolution (Ramesh Mourthy and Raghu Jeganathan), Midnight Lost and Found (Atul Sabharwal), Rewind (Atul Taishete), Haravele Indradhanush/The Lost Rainbow (Dhiraj Meshram) and The Private Life of Albert Pinto (Siddharth Singh).