The Cine Club of the In­di­an High Com­mis­sion launched its In­di­an Film Fes­ti­val on Jan­u­ary 27, at the Daa­ga Au­di­to­ri­um at the St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus of the UWI. The event com­mem­o­rat­ed 100 years of In­di­an cin­e­ma. In­di­an High Com­mis­sion­er Malay Mishra and Roodal Mooni­lal–in his ca­pac­i­ty as act­ing For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter–both de­liv­ered greet­ings.

Mooni­lal con­grat­u­lat­ed the gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of In­dia for cel­e­brat­ing 63 years as a re­pub­lic and high­light­ed the "deep root­ed" re­la­tion­ship they shared with the peo­ple of T&T. In at­ten­dance were mem­bers of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty and the diplo­mat­ic corps. Pa­trons were treat­ed to free In­di­an films (with Eng­lish sub­ti­tles) dai­ly up un­til yes­ter­day.