Veteran director Shyam Benegal's latest offering 'Welcome to Sajjanpur' is set to be screened at the forthcoming London Film Festival .
The movie will be screened in the competition section on World Cinema at the fortnight-long festival starting Oct 15. The LFF screening will also mark the movie's Britain and European premiere. The film is being released in India on Sep 19.
A comedy, 'Welcome to Sajjanpur' is a satirical take on the reality of the contemporary rural India, especially on the government's much-vaunted literacy drive. Shreyal Talpade, Ravi Kishen, Divya Dutta and Amrita Rao essay the key roles in the movie.
Benegal, who is better known for his thought-provoking serious movies, takes a detour and tells a light-hearted delightful tale in the movie. He recently said he was inspired to make the movie by a unit hand, a light man of his own production unit.
'Some time back the light man, who had never gone to school, got married to a girl who has some education. Since she lives in a village in UP and he in Mumbai, he would ask others to write letters on his behalf to his wife. That inspired me to weave a story around his new-found life,' Benegal said.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Welcome to Sajjanpur to be screened in LFF
This is how the movie came into Existense.
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Labels: Amrita Rao, Shreyal Talpade, Welcome To Sajjanpur
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