Govt to promote ‘Bihar Gaurav’ with Oscar films

PATNA: By common knowledge, improvisation has never been the part of normally stiff-necked bureaucrats when handling matters related to art and cultural affairs. For a change, however, the state government and its information and public relations department (IPRD) have shown resilience in their bid to sing songs of `Bihar Gaurav (Bihar Pride)’ under Nitish Kumar regime.

The IPRD has decided to go for packaging its propaganda products with an Oscar film. As it is, the IPRD, in collaboration with Cine Society, has come out with the project of screening `Bihar Gaurav (Bihar Pride)’ documentaries on the state by coupling it with the screening of an Oscar film every week in February. In fact, the month would be celebrated as Oscar Month.


In other words, it would be a combo show, when the audience would have the opportunity to watch a documentary on Bihar, and at the same time, subsequently they would also enjoy the screening of an Oscar film. The event would be held every Saturday in the auditorium of Lok Nayak Bhawan.

As a prelude to it, a show was organized on Sunday in which a department’s documentary titled `Bihar Gaurav Gaan’ was screened, followed by the screening of a Shyam Benegal directed film `The Making of the Mahatma’. IPRD minister Ramnath Thakur inaugurated it.




According to an IPRD communique, during the screening of Bihar Gaurav documentary and an Oscar film every Saturday in keeping with the month-long project, the department would not charge any fee. The audience, however, would get the entry into the Bhawan auditorium to occupy the seats on the first come first serve basis.

It is not the first time that the department has shown interest in cinema. Earlier, the department had organized week-long film-screening programme by coupling it with a course in film making, direction and cinema criticism.

This time, however, February as the Oscar Month has seemingly been conceived to also inject and infuse the sense of `Bihar pride’ among lucky viewers. An IPRD improvisation could really prove to be interesting for both the amateur and professional cine enthusiasts.