'Chaurahen' screened at MAMI
Mumbai, Mar 10 (UNI) One of the six films, which are Indian or India-based in content and imbued with the international flavour at the same time, 'Chaurahen' (Crossroads), was screened on day two of the ongoing 9th Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) international film festival here.
Showcased under the Film India Worldwide section yesterday, 'Chaurahen' is a story that turns the fantasy of love into an everyday reality. Like snippets of collected photographs, it links similar disconnected people in search of something to overcome the mundane routine of reality. The film takes a chosen set of middle-class individuals to reveal that their lives are the stuff of far greater drama in ordinary stories than in the melodrama of spectacle.
Directed by Rajshree Ojha, the film boasts a starcast of Soha Ali Khan, Victor Banerjee, Roopa Ganguly, Nedumudi Venu, Arundhati Nag, Ankur Khanna, Shayan Munshi, Zeenat Aman and Suchitra Pillai.
In
a
tete-e-tete
with
reporters
after
the
screening,
the
protagonist
of
the
film
Suchitra
Pillai
said,
''When
I
was
told
the
story
is
based
in
the
backwaters
of
Kerela,
I
liked
it,
I
also
liked
the
relation
between
the
brother
and
sister.
And
the
major
point
is
working
with
Arundhati
Nag.''
Soha
Ali
Khan
said
''I
have
done
a
lot
of
mainstream
cinema,
I
took
up
this
film
because
I
like
the
role.
If
I
wait
for
something
worthwhile
I
will
become
old.''
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