Firaaq gets its eighth award at Istanbul film festival

Nandita Das`s directorial debut 'Firaaq' won the Special Jury Prize at the 28th Istanbul Film Festival for "conveying a message of hope". The award was presented to Nandita by Maud De Boer Buquicchio - Deputy Secretary General of the Film Award of the Council of Europe.

It is the eighth international award for film which has already won awards in film festivals in Greece, Singapore, Dubai, Karachi and San Jose.

Set in the aftermath of Gujarat riots in 2002, the film deals with the issues related to violence and its effect on human psyche.

Seems Firaq is all set to be one of the all time real life movies which will be remembered for a long time.

Nandita Das directorial debut- Firaaq to release in India

Nandita Das has been associated with off-beat and meaningful cinema as an actress and has done a good job. Now she is putting her directorial skills to test in Firaaq. The movie is packed with some of the legends of Bollywood - Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal and Deepti Naval which is a dream team to work with and they too seem completely impressed by the first time director.

"The film is actually set one month after the Gujarat riots. So the film is not in the thick of the violence, there is no violence at all,” says Nandita Das.

Firaaq revolves around the Gujarat genocide of 2002 and gives an insight into how violence could affect our inner and outer lives. The movie has received accepted globally in several festivals including the Toronto and London Film Festival and was recently awarded the Best Film at the Kara Film Festival in Karachi, Pakistan.

The team hopes their film gets a similar response back home as well.

Firaaq in India- Nandita Das makes directorial debut

Nandita Das has been associated with off-beat and meaningful cinema as an actress and has done a good job. Now she is putting her directorial skills to test in Firaaq. The movie is packed with some of the legends of Bollywood - Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal and Deepti Naval which is a dream team to work with and they too seem completely impressed by the first time director.

"The film is actually set one month after the Gujarat riots. So the film is not in the thick of the violence, there is no violence at all,” says Nandita Das.

Firaaq revolves around the Gujarat genocide of 2002 and gives an insight into how violence could affect our inner and outer lives. The movie has received accepted globally in several festivals including the Toronto and London Film Festival and was recently awarded the Best Film at the Kara Film Festival in Karachi, Pakistan.

The team hopes their film gets a similar response back home as well.