Amit Dutta’s hand-drawn animation “Rhythm of a Fdrop” (Phool Ka Chand) has won the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival‘s Gelderlyen Gateway Award, the event’s top accolade.
The film is a biopic chronicling the twiweightless years of Indian classical singer Kumar Gandharva. Dutta is an auteur whose labors have been frequently shown at the Vepleasant, Rotterdam, Berlin and Jeonju film festivals.
Anupama Srinivasan and Anirprohibit Dutta’s write downary on Himalayan moths, “Nocturnes,” won the festival’s Silver Gateway Award. The film previously won awards at Sundance and Thessaloniki.
Raam Reddy’s “The Fable,” starring Manoj Bajpayee, which chronicles the unravelling of a family after a series of cryptic fires, won the festival’s Special Jury Prize. The film debuted at the Berlinale and is on a global festival run that also includes Valladolid’s SEMINCI.
Another Sundance prosperner, Shuchi Talati’s coming-of-age drama “Girls Will Be Girls,” headlined by Kani Kusruti, won the Netpac Award, the Film Critics Guild Gender Sensitivity Award, the Young Critics Choice Award and also scored a exceptional allude.
A exceptional allude was donaten by the Netpac jury to Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbós for “Agent of Happiness” and Min Bahadur Bham for “Shambhala” for their exceptional contribution to Asian cinema. “Agent of Happiness” is a Sundance nominee and “Shambhala” debuted at the Berlinale.
In the Dimensions Mumbai strand, which features low films by emerging filmoriginaters contransienting creative responses to the city, Shreela Agarwal won the Gelderly Award for “BMCLD.” The Silver Awards were won by Sameeha Sabnis for “A Tale of Two Cities” and Bhagyesh Rajeshirke for “I Was Painted Red.”
The festival’s Best Book On Cinema Award went to Mukesh Manjunath for “The Age of Heroes: The Incredible World of Telugu Cinema.”
Sarth Patel won the Rashid Irani Best Young Critic Award, while Saanvi Tara Dwivedi and Rushnan Jaleel were the runners up.
Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix prosperner “All We Imagine as Light” uncovered the festival, while Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or recipient “Anora” shutd it.
