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  • The Lunchbox wins more international awards

    The Lunchbox wins more international awards

    NEW DELHI: The Lunchbox has won the highest number of awards with three awards – Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and Outstanding Achievement for star Irrfan Khan – at the 56 Asia-Pacific Film Festival held in Macau.

     

     Kore-Eda’s Like Father, Like Son won the two top awards of Best Picture and Best Director.

     

     Hong Kong producer Nansun ShiI served as the head of the jury. She was joined by China’s Zhang Zhao, Malaysia’s Afdlin ShaukiI, Taiwan’s Sylvia Chang and South Korea’s Hur Jin-ho.

     

     Meanwhile, The Lunchbox has also won two awards at the 10th Dubai International Film Festival held in the Madinat Arena of the Madinat Jumeirah resort: Irrfan Khan received Best Actor for his role portraying the role of a lonely man nearing retirement. Director Ritesh Batra shared the Special Mention for his screenplay with Souleymane Démé for his role in Grigris, a France-Chad co-production.

     

     The best director went to India’s Sandeep Ray for Thin Arms in the Muhr AsiaAfrica Shorts competition.

     

     The president of the AsiaAfrica Feature jury was Indian film-maker Shekhar Kapur. Its members include Lebanese actress Carole Abboud and cinematographer Tareq El-Telmissany. Kapur thanked his five-member jury, saying “We started with complete disagreement but within two or three hours ended in complete agreement. So we did our job well.”

  • ‘The Lunchbox’ continues to wow audience worldwide

    ‘The Lunchbox’ continues to wow audience worldwide

    MUMBAI: After wowing festivals worldwide and winning hearts in India, Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, continues its winning trail. This time, it has won the Church of Iceland award at the Reykjavik International film festival, and the Best Director and Best Actor awards at saint jean de luz Film Festival (a French Festival).

    The film has now been selected in the official competition section of the prestigious BFI London Film Festival. In the 56th year of the festival, The Lunchbox that stars Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur in the lead roles, will compete with some of the best films in the world including the Jesse Eisenberg-starrer The Double and the Scarlett Johansson-starrer Under the Skin. The festival will also screen Steven McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave and Alfonso Cuaron’sGravity in the Gala section.

    In another key development, Artifical Eye has bought the UK distribution rights of The Lunchbox. “We acquired the film both because we loved it and because we feel it will be loved by the UK audiences,” says Artificial Eye Managing Director, Louisa Dent.

  • The Lunchbox continues to wow audience worldwide

    The Lunchbox continues to wow audience worldwide

    MUMBAI: After wowing festivals worldwide and winning hearts in India, Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, continues its winning trail. This time, it has won the Church of Iceland award at the Reykjavik International film festival, and the Best Director and Best Actor awards at saint jean de luz Film Festival (a French Festival).

     

    The film has now been selected in the official competition section of the prestigious BFI London Film Festival. In the 56th year of the festival, The Lunchbox that stars Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur in the lead roles, will compete with some of the best films in the world including the Jesse Eisenberg-starrer The Double and the Scarlett Johansson-starrer Under the Skin. The festival will also screen Steven McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave and Alfonso Cuaron’sGravity in the Gala section.

     

    In another key development, Artifical Eye has bought the UK distribution rights of The Lunchbox. “We acquired the film both because we loved it and because we feel it will be loved by the UK audiences,” says Artificial Eye Managing Director, Louisa Dent.

  • E Lounge unwind with Irfan Khan & Nimrat Kaur

    E Lounge unwind with Irfan Khan & Nimrat Kaur

    MUMBAI: This week CNN-IBN’s new entertainment show ‘E Lounge Unwind’ brings you a special rendezvous with actor Irrfan Khan and debutante Nimrat Kaur on their upcoming film ‘The Lunchbox’. The duo talks about the film making it big at various international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and how this Anurag Kashyap production won the prestigious Grand Rail d’Or. Catch the stars in candid conversation with Rajeev Masand on the making of the film and why they feel that it should be India’s official entry to the Oscars.

    Dont forget to tune into this captivating episode of E Lounge Unwind on Sat, Sept 14th @ 10:30 PM, only on CNN-IBN.

  • Satyajit Ray’s Goopy and Bagha in animation at Toronto Filmfest

    Satyajit Ray’s Goopy and Bagha in animation at Toronto Filmfest

    NEW DELHI: The animation film The World of Ghoopi and Bagha by Shilpa Ranade is being screened in the 39th Toronto International Film Festival’s Kids section.

     

    The film is based on Satyajit Ray’s live action 1969 Bengali language children’s musical ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’. The original was based on a story told by Ray’s grandfather. The animation film has been made for the Children’s Film Society, India.

     

    Indian romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra will also see its premiere at the Festival being held 5 to 15 September which will also have Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox.

     

    Ranade’s film has been announced in the update list of more than a dozen films from Asia in various sections announced now, doubling the size of this year’s Asian selection.

  • Shuddh Desi Romance to premiere at Toronto in September

    Shuddh Desi Romance to premiere at Toronto in September

    NEW DELHI: Indian romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance will see its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in early September.

    The Festival announced the 70 titles in its Gala Premiere and Special Presentation films, including the North American premieres of several high-profile Asian titles.

    The Gala Presentation features Peter Chan’s American Dreams in China, Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, South Korean thriller Cold Eyes and India’s Shudh Desi Romance directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra.

    The Special Presentation section features Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Like Father, Like Son, Keanu Reeves’ China-US co-production Man of Tai Chi and Kurusawa Kiyoshi’s Real.

    The festival opens on 5 Septenber with Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate featuring Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Julian Assange.

  • Batra’s ‘Lunchbox’ wins jury special mention at Cinemart

    Batra’s ‘Lunchbox’ wins jury special mention at Cinemart

    MUMBAI: Ritesh Batra‘s The Lunchbox has won a Jury Special Mention at the 29th CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

    The project is a co-production of Anurag Kashyap Productions Pvt Ltd (India) and Cine Mosaic (USA).

    The ARTE France Cinéma Award (10,000 Euro) for the Best CineMart 2012 Project was given to Duncharon by Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece), a co-production of Haos Films and Faliro House Productions (Greece), Maharaja Films (France) and The Match Factory GmbH (Germany).

    The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award (30,000 Euro) for the Best CineMart 2012 Project with an European partner went to Humidity by Nikola Ljuca (Serbia), a co-production of Dart Film (Serbia) and zischlermann film produktion GbR (Germany).

    Cinemart concluded on 1 February in Rotterdam.

  • The Lunchbox to participate in Cinemart at Rotterdam fest

    The Lunchbox to participate in Cinemart at Rotterdam fest

    MUMBAI: Anurag Kashyap Productions and Cine Mosaic’s film, The Lunchbox, will participate in Cinemart, the co-production market at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

    Helmed by Ritesh Batra, the film is one of the 35 projects selected for Cinemart. The project, that was selected for NFDC Screenwriter’s Lab, recently participated at workshops in Venice and Goa.

    The prizes given to distinguished CineMart projects are Eurimages Co-Production Development Award (one prize of € 30,000) and Arte France Cinéma Award (one prize of € 10,000).

    The 29th edition of Cinemart will take place from 29 January to 1 February.