BY RENU MEHTA, TORONTO: Vasan Bala’s film The Man Who Feels No Pain (Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota) won the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award at the Toronto International Film festival (TIFF) beating out Assassination Nation and Halloween. It was the first time ever that an Indian film was included in the Midnight Madness program […]
MANMARZIYAAN PRESENTED AT TIFF 2018
BY RENU MEHTA, TORONTO: Anurag Kashyap’s Manmarziyaan (Husband Material) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) at the prestigious Roy Thomson Hall on September 11. The film attended by Kashyap also had the main stars in attendance including Abhishek Bachchan, Tapsee Pannu and Vicky Kaushal. Exploring the vibrant culture of Amritsar, the film tells […]
FILM ON MUMBAI TERROR ATTACKS MAKES DEBUT AT TIFF 2018
BY RENU MEHTA, TORONTO: Hotel Mumbai, a must watch film, directed by Australian director Anthony Maras made its debut at the Toronto International Film festival (TIFF). Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, and Anupam Kher star in Anthony Maras’s debut feature, about the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and its survivors. The feature focuses on the […]
HANSAL MEHTA BRINGS THE TRUE STORY OF MINDS BEHIND 9/11
: Hansal Mehta’s film Omerta at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2017 recounts the true picture of a radical Muslim, a story of British born terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, most well-known for his role in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and his involvement with the 9/11 terrorist […]
BOXING, SPORTS AND THE CASTE SYSTEM EXPLORED IN ANURAG KASHYAP’S FILM AT TIFF
BY RENU MEHTA TORONTO: Anurag Kashyap’s film The Brawler (Mukkabaaz) that screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year is a bold film outlining several layers of issues for boxing in India. The film narrates the story of a lower-caste boxer who struggles to make his mark on the boxing world and faces […]
A JOURNEY THROUGH RURAL PAKISTAN AND URBAN INDIA AT TIFF
BY RENU MEHTA TORONTO: Azmaish – a Journey through the Subcontinent, a film by Sabiha Sumar, is a passage through rural Pakistan and urban India. In this documentary, Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar and Indian actor Kalki Koechlin take a revealing journey through India and Pakistan, uncovering the common humanity beyond the divisive political rhetoric. […]
