PANAJI: The 41st International Film Festival of India, which commenced here on 22 November, is unique in various respects.

The eminent director and ten-time National Award winner Rituparno Ghosh is, perhaps, the only person who does not have a retrospective on him but is being featured in as many as three films – one as an actor.

While his directorial ventrure Abohoman which has already won national awards is in the Indian Panorama, Noukadubi based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore and produced by Subhash Ghai has been premiered here.

The third film, Just Another Love Story, stars Ghosh as a homosexual director making a film on a very renowned Bengali theatre actor who always acted in female roles