Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga, Tahira Kashyap’s Indian Women Rising venture ‘Bitu’ in Oscars 2021 race

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Soon after launching the cinema collective- ‘Indian Women Rising’, Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, and Ruchikaa Kapoor introduced their inaugural venture with Karishma Dev Dube directorial ‘Bittu’, the trailer of which has been launched on its official YouTube web page on Wednesday. Kapoor, Monga, Khurrana has chosen the Student Academy Awardee ‘Bittu’ as their first venture to advertise and shine the highlight on the movie because it runs the race for Oscars within the Short Film Category.

Bittu, a heartwarming story has had a stellar pageant run with greater than 18 festivals and a number of wins. Having screened on the BFI London Film Festival, Telluride, Palm Springs Shortfest, HollyShorts (the place Karishma gained one of the best director award) Bittu additionally got here to India with Dharamshala International Film Festival.

Selecting ‘Bittu’ because the maiden venture below ‘Indian Women Rising’, the trio of Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, and Ruchikaa Kapoor is set to help empowering story offered by Karishma Dev Dube donning the director’s hat, Shreya Dev Dube because the cinematographer and Mary Evangelista who produced the movie. Based on a real story, Bittu is a brief movie a few shut friendship between two women, eclipsed by an unintended poisoning in school. From casting actual youngsters amongst the valleys of the Himalayas to capturing in opposition to the backdrop of the mountains, the movie affords a visually aesthetic in addition to an genuine expertise, to its viewers.

The cinema collective ‘Indian Women Rising’ goals at discovering Indian feminine expertise in cinema and broaden its scope of selling, gross sales, and distribution past the demographical boundaries.

Vidya Balan’s debut manufacturing ‘Natkhat’ in race for Oscars 2021

Bollywood actress Vidya Balan’s award-winning brief movie Natkhat is within the race for Oscars 2021 as effectively. The movie is within the Best Short Film (Live Action) class. In the brief movie, Vidya has not simply starred however it is usually her debut manufacturing. It is a narrative of a mom instructing her younger son about gender equality and poisonous misogyny. The producers took to Twitter to precise how elated they’re that Natkhat is within the working for Best Short Film on the Oscars.

RSVP Movies tweeted, “We made #Natkhat “to reach every corner of the earth and tell the world that change begins at home.” Elated to be in the race for the Oscars 2021 short film category!”

We made #Natkhat “to reach every corner of the earth and tell the world that change begins at home.” Elated to be within the race for the Oscars 2021 brief movie class!https://t.co/BLnd7DZVPg@RonnieScrewvala @vidya_balan @SanayaIZohrabi @FontOfThinking @mesopystic @NBCNews— RSVP Movies (@RSVPMovies) January 14, 2021

-With ANI inputs