Guwahati: Assamese filmmaker Abdul Majid is among the nine departed actors and directors of the country whom the International Film Festival of India 2017, which was inaugurated in Goa on Monday, will pay tribute to over the next nine days.

Majid's 1975 blockbuster, Chameli Memsaab, will be screened at the festival's homage section on November 22, his family members said. Majid had died on September 23 after a cardiac arrest. He was 86.

The other stalwarts on the IFFI homage list are actors Om Puri, Vinod Khanna, Tom Alter, Reema Lagoo and Jayalalithaa, and directors Kundan Shah, Dasari Narayana Rao and Ramanand Sengupta, all of whom passed away over the past few months.

Majid's Chameli Memsaab is a love story of a British tea estate owner and a local tea worker. Set in a tea estate in Assam, it is based on a short story by Nirode Choudhury. It was one of the few Assamese films that won both critical acclaim and commercial success. It starred George Baker and Binita Borgohain in the lead roles.

At the 1975 National Film Awards, it had won the best feature film award in the Assamese language section while Bhupen Hazarika bagged the best music director's award. Two of the film's tracks, Asom Deshor Bagisare Sowali sung by Usha Mangeshkar and Bhupen Hazarika and O Bideshi Bandhu sung by Bhupen Hazarika are all-time Assamese hits. "We are very proud that our father's work has been selected. In Assam, Chameli Memsaab has already received immense love from the people. Now it will get international exposure. It is the ultimate honour to my father's hard work," Kaju Majid, son of Abdul Majid and a film editor, told The Telegraph.

Kaju said the organisers of IFFI 2017 had invited Majid's family to the festival. There could be a tribute programme but it was not confirmed yet.

Majid had directed seven feature films, 15 short films, around 40 documentaries and TV serials.