Anurag Kashyap’s Dobaaraa to premiere at London Indian Film Festival

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s upcoming thriller Dobaaraa, starring Taapsee Pannu, was on Tuesday confirmed because the opening evening film on the 2022 London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) on June 23, forward of its Indian launch on July 1. Female filmmakers shall be on the forefront of this yr’s version of the LIFF, together with the European premiere of the Aparna Sen directorial ‘The Rapist’, starring Konkana Sen Sharma and Arjun Rampal.

“We have UK premiered a number of Anurag’s films over the last 12 years – including That Girl In Yellow Boots and Gangs of Wasseypur. Anurag delivers yet another fresh directorial approach and a compelling twisted story. Actor Taapsee Pannu steals the show as a young woman trapped between two lives in different decades,” mentioned Festival Director Cary Rajinder Sawhney.

“We are also delighted at the exceptionally strong cavalcade of exciting new premieres at this year’s festival in 10 different languages and some very rare in person talks headlined by India’s greatest woman filmmaker Aparna Sen,” added Sawhney.

This yr’s LIFF, backed by Blue Orchid Hotels, Integrity International, the British Film Institute (BFI), Bagri Foundation and Arts Council of England, spans over a fortnight beginning subsequent month to display a wide range of movies at cinemas throughout London in addition to regionally in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds.

“Dobaaraa being premiered at the London Film Festival right ahead of its theatrical release is a testament of its new-age, cutting edge narrative being wholly loved and applauded all over the world,” mentioned Ektaa R Kapoor, the producer behind the opening evening movie. Dobaaraa is our first movie underneath Cult Movies, our new film-division which is about to inform compelling, edgy and genre-bending tales. I really feel ecstatic for Dobaaraa and its presence amidst varied celebrated worldwide movies from across the globe and I can’t wait to showcase the movie to Indian audiences on July 1, 2022,” she mentioned.

Among different UK premieres at this yr’s movie competition celebrating Indian and South Asian cinema embrace Pan Nalin’s homage to celluloid Chello Show and Anik Dutta’s Aparajito – a tribute to legendary director Satyajit Ray’s journey of constructing his first movie, the cult basic Pather Panchali.

An intimate have a look at modern-day Kolkata, Once Upon a Time in Calcutta by Aditya Vikram Sengupta additionally options within the competition line-up. Set towards a rating by Oscar winner AR Rahman, who can be govt producer, No Land’s Man shall be screened on the movie gala as nicely. The acclaimed movie is headlined by Nawazuddin Siddiqui who performs the position of a person coping with the complexities of identification.

Under the competition’s Save the Planet strand, ecological and local weather themes are explored in The Road to Kuthriyar, No Ground Beneath My Feet and Hatibondhu. Canadian Indian documentary Superfan: The Nav Bhatia Story, set across the Toronto Raptors basketball group’s biggest fan, will shut the competition. Following the London leg, which concludes on July 3, the LIFF will come to a detailed in Birmingham on July 5 and Manchester on July 6.