Oops!! IFFI uses Gulzar's pic instead of Satyajit Ray

In a major goof up, 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), mixed up the pictures of late filmmaker Satyajit Ray and lyricist Gulzar on their website. A picture of the goof up is now going viral.

Since no celebration of Indian films can be complete without referring to the works of Satyajit Ray, who became the first Indian ever to receive an honourary Oscar in 1992 and whose films served as a benchmark for Indian New Wave cinema, IFFI's 50th edition naturally features several films by the filmmaker.

In the homage section of the IFFI website, Ray’s film based on Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People, Ganashatru is mentioned. While the credit for direction and the description for the 1989 film read fine, it carried a picture of Gulzar instead of Satyajit.

A user spotted the error and posted a screenshot online, which then went viral on Twitter. The error has since been rectified.

The 50th International Film Festival of India, 2019 began in Goa on Wednesday. Actors Amitabh Bachchan and rajinikanth attended the festival on the inaugural day and also attended the opening session of Indian Panorama section. As many as 26 feature films and 15 non-feature films will be screened as part of Indian Panorama at IFFI 2019.