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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.
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) -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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