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New
York hosts 3rd Indo-American Arts Council film festival
The following directors
won the awards for 'Outstanding Film Creativity'. Awards were
presented by author Salman Rushdie on Sunday, November 9,
2003
Sharat Raju's "American
Made" - the Eastman Kodak Award
Pamela Rooks' "Dance
Like a Man" - Analog Digital International Award
Amisha Upadhyaya's
"Imperfections" - Lab Link Award
Abhay Chopra's "Reflections"
- N & D Film & Video Award
Babar Ahmed's "Genius"
& Satish Menon's "Bhavum" - Metropolis Film
Lab Award
A five-day-long film festival in New York, organised by the Indo-American
Arts Council in New York showcased the work of filmmakers of Indian
origin earlier this month. 18 feature and documentary films were
screened – some were shot entirely in the US, while a few, like
Pamela Rooks’ ‘Dance like a man’ were made in India. Pakistani
director Babar Ahmed transcended borders by casting India-born
Bobby Routh in his film ‘Genius’. Nisha Ganatra’s ‘Cosmopolitan’
– with Roshan Seth and Madhur Jaffrey in the lead-was a vivid
and a hilarious rendition of a first generation Indian in the
US.
Nisha Ganatra's 'Cosmopolitan'
- yet another look at Indo-Americans
Films screened were:
-Nisha
Ganatra's "Cosmopolitan" starring Roshan Seth,
Carol Kane, Madhur Jaffrey, Purva Bedi 55
Mins)
-Satish Menon's
"Bhavum" starring Mita Vasisht, Murali Menon,
Jyothirmayee, Siddique, Koottatakulam Leela (Malyalam with English
subtitles) (111 mins)
Stills from Dance Like A Man
L-R: Anoushka Shankar & Samir Soni; Shobana
-Pamela Rooks'
"Dance Like a Man" starring Shobana, Arif Zakaria,
Anoushka Shankar, Samir Soni, Mohan Agashe. (102 mins). The film
is based on Mahesh Dattani's play of the same name.
-Manish Gupta's
"Indian Fish in American Waters" a romantic comedy
starring Raj Vasudeva, Shweta Malhotra, Saumya Kumar Bhatnagar,
Puja Lalmani, Elma Kumbaro, Gaurav Rawal. (93 mins) - WORLD PREMIER
-Apoorva Lakhia's
"Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost" starring Abhishek
Bachchan, Lara Dutta (149 mins)
-Sabrina Dhawan's
"Saanjh" starring Nandita Das (20 mins)
-Sharat Raju's
"American Made" starring Sakina Jaffrey, Bernard
White, Kal Penn, Te-Amir Sweeney, Haskell Anderson (25 mins)
-Abhay Chopra's
"Reflections"17 Mins.
-Jaya Jayaraja's
"Deeper Mark" starring Suneet Bharati, Gino Montesinos,
Michael Kehoe, Lee Schall, Shawn Berry and Richard Joel 21 Mins.
-Amisha Upadhyaya's
"Imperfections" starring Maya Israel, Sanjay
Chandani (21 mins)
-Keshni Kashyap's
"Hole" starring Lina Patel (12 mins)
-Mira Nair's
"The Laughing Club of India" (35 mins)
-Mira Nair's
"India Cabaret" (60 mins)
-Vishal Shah's
"American Addiction" starring Vishal Shah, Rita
Rani Ahuja, Mitesh Patel, Artee Patel, Sanjay Manu, Fabiola Francesca
Tera
-Vikram Yashpal's
"Trade Offs" starring Deypika Singh, Rahul Malholtra,
Rita Rani, Anup Sugunan, Asit Goel, L.J. Wayne (100 mins)
-Babar Ahmed's
"Genius" starring Kelly Walters, Diogerlin Linares
(80 mins)
-Tanuja Chandra's
"Sur" starring Lucky Ali, Gauri Karnik, Simone
Singh, Achint Kaur, Divya Dutta (150 mins)
-Nagesh Kukunoor's
"Teen Diwarein" starring Naseeruddin Shah, Jackie
Shroff, Nagesh Kukunoor, Juhi Chawla. (120 mins)
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