The South Asian International Film Festival (Saiff),New York has started a new initiative titled South Asian Rising Star Film Awards to celebrate its ninth anniversary.
Nominees have been announced in nine categories for the first edition of the awards. A jury consisting of Indian film critic Rajeev Mansand; author, and journalist Anupama Chopra; Siddhartha Khosla who is the front-man of NY-based band Goldspot and a singer/songwriter; American actress and musician Janina Gavankar and American actor Maulik Pancholy will select the winners.
South Asian Rising Star Awards are presented by Saiff and HBO.
The award ceremony, to be held on October 23rd, will be co hosted by American adult entertainer and Bollywood actor Sunny Leone.
Here nominees are:-
Best Lead Actor:
1. Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Gangs of Wasseypur)
2. Mohammad Samad (Gattu)
3. Ayushman Khurana (Vicky Donor)
4. AshChandler(Love, Wrinkle Free)
5. Vinay Virmani (Breakaway)
Best Lead Actress:
1. Tanishtha Chatterjee (Dekh Indian Circus)
2. Humaima Malik...
Nominees have been announced in nine categories for the first edition of the awards. A jury consisting of Indian film critic Rajeev Mansand; author, and journalist Anupama Chopra; Siddhartha Khosla who is the front-man of NY-based band Goldspot and a singer/songwriter; American actress and musician Janina Gavankar and American actor Maulik Pancholy will select the winners.
South Asian Rising Star Awards are presented by Saiff and HBO.
The award ceremony, to be held on October 23rd, will be co hosted by American adult entertainer and Bollywood actor Sunny Leone.
Here nominees are:-
Best Lead Actor:
1. Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Gangs of Wasseypur)
2. Mohammad Samad (Gattu)
3. Ayushman Khurana (Vicky Donor)
4. AshChandler(Love, Wrinkle Free)
5. Vinay Virmani (Breakaway)
Best Lead Actress:
1. Tanishtha Chatterjee (Dekh Indian Circus)
2. Humaima Malik...
- 9/26/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Still from Gangs of Wasseypur
A festival of Indian independent films called ‘Indian Indies – Bollywood & Beyond’ is being held in Copenhagen from August 19-September 16, 2012. This festival is organized by Cph Pix and Cinematheque.
“The new generations of Indians – both filmmakers and audiences – are more well-traveled, better educated and more internationally oriented, and Cph Pix’s and Cinematheque program reflects this shift with a genre, geographically, linguistically and culturally diverse film program,” mentions the official website of the festival.
Some of the films to be screened in this festival are Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur, Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om, Vikramaditya Motwane’s Udaan, Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Ajita Suchitra Veera’s Ballad of Rustom, Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar, Srinivas Sunderrajan’s The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project and Greater Elephant, Karan Gour’s Kshay, Q’s Gandu, Umesh Kulkarni’s Deool,...
A festival of Indian independent films called ‘Indian Indies – Bollywood & Beyond’ is being held in Copenhagen from August 19-September 16, 2012. This festival is organized by Cph Pix and Cinematheque.
“The new generations of Indians – both filmmakers and audiences – are more well-traveled, better educated and more internationally oriented, and Cph Pix’s and Cinematheque program reflects this shift with a genre, geographically, linguistically and culturally diverse film program,” mentions the official website of the festival.
Some of the films to be screened in this festival are Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur, Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om, Vikramaditya Motwane’s Udaan, Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Ajita Suchitra Veera’s Ballad of Rustom, Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar, Srinivas Sunderrajan’s The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project and Greater Elephant, Karan Gour’s Kshay, Q’s Gandu, Umesh Kulkarni’s Deool,...
- 8/29/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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