‘Lahore’ wins jury award at Houston WorldFest
Lahore, debutant director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan’s story of two sportsmen brothers in the backdrop of India-Pakistan tensions has won the Jury Award for the Best Feature Film at the recent 42nd WorldFest International Film Festival at Houston in the United States.
The film had its world premiere at the festival which was attended by Sanjeev Arora, Consul General of India, and Mohammed Aquil Nadeem, Consul General of Pakistan.
The WorldFest is known as the festival that projected the initial works of exalted directors like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, Ridley Scots, Robert Rodriguez, Robert Townsend, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone and David Lynch.
The film revolves around two brothers from Rajastan, one a
national kickboxing champion and the other a star cricketer.
According to a note from its makers, the movie traces an emotional path as it deals with interactions between citizens of the two nations that have fought three wars.
Starring veterans Nafisa Ali, Farouque Shaikh, Ashish Vidyarthi, Nirmal Pandey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Sourav Shukla, Sushant Singh, Kelly Dorji as also newcomer Aanaahad, the film has music by M M Kreem, background score by Wayne Sharpe, action by Tony Leung Siu Hung and Robert Miller, sound by Peter Levin, production design by Keshto Mondal and cinematography by Neelabh Kaul.
Tags: Lahore, Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
And just to add, the film is written (or co-written) by Piyush Mishra! (Wonder how writer’s credits go missing all the time.)