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  • IFFLA: ‘Chauranga’ wins Best film award, ‘Kaaka Muttai’ bags audience choice

    IFFLA: ‘Chauranga’ wins Best film award, ‘Kaaka Muttai’ bags audience choice

    NEW DELHI: Filmmaker Bikas Ranjan Mishra’s Chauranga won the Best Feature (Grand Jury) award at the 13th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA).

     

    M. Manikandan’s Kaaka Muttai won the Best Feature award (Audience Choice) at the festival, which was held from 8 to 12 April at the ArcLight Hollywood.

     

    Actresses Kalki Koechlin and Shweta Tripathi were in a tie as winners of the Best Actress award for Margarita with a Straw and Haraamkhor respectively. 

     

    Chauranga, co-produced by Sanjay Suri and Onir, stars Suri and Tannishtha Chatterjee. It is a fictional account of six days in a dark corner of India, telling a story of violence of class oppression that still exists in rural India.

     

    Onir tweeted, “Super Proud that our film #CHAURANGA won the BEST FEATURE – GRAND JURY prize at #IFFLA :). (sic)”.

     

    “Thrilled ! #CHAURANGA wins Best Feature (GRAND JURY) prize at #IFFLA2015 @bikas @IamOnir @TannishthaC @ArpitaCP,” Suri tweeted.

     

    The Best Short Film (Audience Choice) award was given to Safar by Pratyusha Gupta, while the Grand Jury prize in the same segment went to Dandekar Makes A Sandwich by Leena Pendharkar.

     

    A total of around 25 films including sixteen features – among them the opening filmHaraamkhor by Shlok Sharma and several shorts including Jai Ho on A R Rahman by Delhi-based filmmaker Umesh Aggarwal – were screened at the Festival.

     

    Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Haraamkhor has been produced by Anurag Kashyap and Guneet Monga.

     

    The closing film was Dhanak, a coming-of-age film directed by Nagesh Kukunoor. The centerpiece film was the British comedy One Crazy Thing directed by Amit Gupta. The movie stars Ray Panthaki and Daisy Bevan and centers on a man struggling to overcome the notoriety from his sex tape. 

     

    Actor-producer Abhay Deol was a member of the jury and the other narrative jury members were filmmaker Sean Baker, HFPA member and frequent board director Yoram Kahana, Warner Bros EVP – physical production Ravi Mehta and author and film curator Berenice Reynaud.

     

    The shorts jury include actor Danny Pudi, Outfest director of programming Lucy Mukerjee-Brown, Sundance shorts programmer Lisa Ogdie and Heather Morris Washington, manager of the Emerging Writers Fellowship at Universal.

     

    The festival saw four world premieres, seven North American bows, two American and 10 Los Angeles premieres from not just India, but also the US, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Cuba, in 10 languages including English, Spanish and German.

  • Filmmakers Onir and Sanjay Suri resort to crowd funding for Chauranga

    Filmmakers Onir and Sanjay Suri resort to crowd funding for Chauranga

    MUMBAI: Looks like Onir and Sanjay Suri‘s upcoming film Chauranga is all about crowd sourcing.

    After crowd sourcing talent like its publicity designer and background score designer who were picked through an open contest on Facebook, the filmmakers have now resorted to crowd funding for their film to be directed by Bikas Mishra.

    Crowd funding is collective pooling of resources by people, usually via the internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organisations.

    Chauranga, a fictional account of six days in a dark corner of India, tells the story of class oppression in rural India.

    This project was part of Screenwriters‘ Lab at Locarno Film Festival and ScriptStation at Berlin Talent Campus. It won the Incredible India award for the best project at the co-production of NFDC Film Bazaar, Goa 2011. It also received script and project development funding from Goteborg International Film Festival, Sweden. It was recently invited for Paris Project, the co-production market of Paris International Film Festival 2012.

  • Sanjay Suri and Onir’s next film is Chauranga

    Sanjay Suri and Onir’s next film is Chauranga

    MUMBAI: Acclaimed for their latest release I Am, Sanjay Suri and Onir have now decided to produce Chauranga which is based on a true story. But this time around, instead of directing the film, Onir will only produce it.


    Chauranga will be directed by Bikas Ranjan Mishra, his first effort. It tells the touching story of an uneducated young Dalit boy wanting to express his feelings to an educated girl. He seeks help from his brother to write a love letter. The film explores the consequences thereafter.


    A similar incident that took place in the Kaimur district of Bihar seems to have inspired Mishra to make the film. This incident created quite a stir internationally.


    Though the auditions for the lead role is yet to take place, the makers plan to cast local talent from Jharkhand. The shooting of the film will begin in January next year.


    Suri and Onir have earlier worked together in My Brother Nikhil, Bas Ek Pal and Sorry Bhai!.