Indian film bags award at Arpa Film Festival

Shimla, Nov 14 (UNI) Indian children's film ''Mehak'' has bagged the best feature film award at Arpa International Film Festival 2007.

The film, featuring a Himachali girl, is a little girl's journey to self realisation and reflects the changes the country is going through from economic freedom towards a renewed intellectual identity.

The film has been produced by Children Film Society of India (CFSI) and has been directed by Kranti Kanade, a release here said.

Mehak is also competing in the International Children Film Festival, starting today, at Hyderabad.

This was the second film for Himachali girl, Shreya Sharma, who had also worked for ''the blue umbrella'', which won the national award for the best children's film for 2006.

UNI