BY RENU MEHTA TORONTO: November 7, 2020: Deepa Mehta’s new film Funny Boy, selected as Canada’s entry for the Oscars, has now achieved another triumph. Based on a book by Shyam Selvadurai, the film has now been chosen as the opening film of EnGendered, a major Human Rights festival in New Delhi on December 10. […]
DEV PATEL RETURNS TO TIFF AS DAVID COPPERFIELD
BY RENU MEHTA, TORONTO: Dev Patel returned to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), this time with Director Armando Iannucci’s film The Personal History of David Copperfield. Charles Dickens classic autobiographical novel had a stellar cast that besides Patel included Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Gwendoline Christie, Peter Capaldi, and Ben Whishaw. The film is set […]
DHANUSH FILM TO DEBUT IN CINEMAS JUNE 21
TORONTO, BY ROHAN RAI: A-Z Films has picked up the film The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, a comedy adventure by Quebec director Ken Scott (Starbuck, Delivery Man, Unfinished Business, La Grande Séduction) and starring the well-known Indian actor Dhanush, and featuring Bérénice Béjo (The Artist) Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) Erin Moriarty (Blood Father) and Abel […]
