After winning two awards at Berlinale, Nagesh Kukunoor’s next, Dhanak to be screened at TIFF and IFFLA
After
winning two awards at Berlinale, Nagesh Kukunoor’s next, Dhanak to be screened at TIFF and IFFLA
Mumbai,
April 2015: After bagging two awards at the 65th Berlin
International Film Festival, Nagesh ukunoor’s Dhanak (Rainbow) to be screened
at two more prestigious international film festivals, Indian Film
Festival Los Angeles (IFFLA) and at Toronto
International Film Festival (TIFF), Kids.
Dhanak is the Closing Night Gala film
at the IFFLA, where it will screen on April 12, 2015 and it will also have its
North American premiere at TIFF Kids, with screenings on April 9th, 12th, 15th
and 18th. TIFF Kids is one of the largest children's film festivals in the
world.
The award winning film co-produced by Manish Mundra, Nagesh Kukunoor
and Elahe Hiptoola had its world premiere at the prestigious film festival,
Berlinale where it bagged The Grand Prix for the best feature-length film and
the Special Mention for the best feature film by The Children's Jury for
Generation Kplus. "
Mundra produced the award-winning film Ankhon Dekhi and
co-produced Umrika, which has
won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the
2015 Sundance Film Festival. He also contributed 50 lakhs to
Mumbai Film festival, 2014.
About
the film:
The
film which stars, HetalGada
and Krrish Chhabria in the lead roles is about an eight-year-old
blind boy whose 10-year-old sister promises him that he will get his vision
back before he turns 9. The film follows the duo on a magical journey through
the sand dunes of Rajasthan. The film also stars
theatre actors, Vipin Sharma and Vibha Chhiber in the prominent roles.
Like Iqbal, Dhanak also explores the beautiful relationship of a
brother and sister and the central character suffers from a disability, but in
a dramatically diverse setting. This is also Nagesh’s second film with children
after the much acclaimed Rockford.
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