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  • Kalki Koechlin’s ‘Margarita, With A Straw’ gets thumbs up from industry

    Kalki Koechlin’s ‘Margarita, With A Straw’ gets thumbs up from industry

    MUMBAI: The Kalki Koechlin starrer Margarita, With A Straw has been hugely appreciated by the Bollywood film fraternity including Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Shraddha Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap, Farah Khan, Soni Razdan, Radhika Apte, Aditi Rao Hydari and Colors CEO Raj Nayak among others.
     

    A film by Sonali Bose, Margarita, With A Straw has already been screened at various film festivals like Toronto, Busan and Cannes amongst others winning recognition to its credit like the best actress and the best film awards. The film has been applauded for its heartwarming story and unbiased approach at various issues of society.
     

    Some of the accolades received on Twitter are:
     

    Director Farah Khan loved the film and tweeted, “Just saw #MaragaritaWithAStraw .. It’s a 2 hero film..Director Shonali Bose n actress kalki koechlin..!! Take a bow”
     

    Calling the film a moving experience actress Soni Razdan tweeted, “Margarita, With A Straw…one of the most sensitive entertaining and moving films I have seen, brilliantly directed by Shonali Bose, so proud!”
     

    Nayak tweeted, “Watched #margaritawithastraw. What a beautiful movie, so sensitively made, touches a chord in you. LOVED it. #shonalibose Proud of you :)”

  • Mikey McCleary bags best composer award for ‘Margarita, With a Straw’ at AFA

    Mikey McCleary bags best composer award for ‘Margarita, With a Straw’ at AFA

    NEW DELHI: Although India dominated the Asian Film Awards nominations with three Indian films shortlisted for seven awards, it managed to walk away with just one award: Mikey McCleary got the best composer award for Margarita, With a Straw.

     

    Korean talent received rounds of applause at a lavish ceremony in Macau, but the biggest prizes at the Awards went to the Chinese. 

     

    The Best film went to Lou Ye’s Blind Massage, while Ann Hui was named as best director for The Golden Era.

     

    The biggest cheers of the evening, however, went to the veteran Korean director Im Kwon-taek, who collected a lifetime achievement award.

     

    The event had been transferred from Hong Kong to Macau last year for the first time, and it is the second year the awards have been organized and presented as a joint effort by three film festivals — Hong Kong, Busan and Tokyo.

     

    A total of 42 Asian films competed for 14 categories.  

     

    From India, Haider had four nominations: Best Film, Best Director Vishal Bhardwaj, Best Supporting Actress Tabu, and Best Production Design.

     

    Kalki Koechlin was also nominated for her performance in Margarita, With a Straw.

     

    Court, which got the best National Film Award this year was nominated for director Chaitanya Tamhane’s screenplay.

     

    Im Kwon-taek is the longest-working director in South Korea, and has directed 102 films since 1962. His latest film Revivre screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival earlier this month.

     

    Past recipients of the AFA’s Lifetime Achievement Award include Amitabh Bachchan, Ann Hui and Raymond Chow.

     

    Im Kwon-taek (born May 2, 1936) is one of South Korea’s most renowned film directors. As of spring 2013, he has directed 101 films.

     

  • Two Indian films added to Toronto International Filmfest programme

    Two Indian films added to Toronto International Filmfest programme

    NEW DELHI: The Toronto International Film Festival, which had earlier announced its selections, has now added two more Indian films in different sections.

     

    Margarita, with a Straw directed by Shonali Bose will get a world premiere in Contemporary World Cinema programme while Megha Ramaswamy’s short film Newborns will screen in the inaugural Short Cuts International programme.

     

    Margarita, with a Straw revolves around Laila (Kalki Koechlin), a young romantic and a secret rebel in a wheelchair. Undeterred by cerebral palsy, she embarks on exhilarating adventures of self discovery, which causes a rift both within and with those she is closest to. Ultimately, it is in the intensity of these bonds where she must find the strength to truly be herself.

    Newborns attempts to provide a lens to the survivors of acid violence, to look forward and gaze back. They take us through the ennui of their domestic and public spaces in a nameless dystopian city, its factories, houses and motels, and its promises, never honoured.

     

    A total of 36 international shorts from 29 countries will be screened in the newly introduced short film section at the 39th Festival from 4 to 14 September.

     

    The programme presents the latest works of some of the most provocative and important voices in cinema from around the globe.

     

    Several other Asian films have also been added. They include the world premieres of Johnnie To’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart and Revenge of the Green Dragons, co-directed by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo.

     

    Other new titles include Joel C. Lamangan’s Justice Hustisya, Liew Seng Tai’s Men who save the World and Chang Jung-chi’s Partners in Crime.