Mumbai:
Filmmaker Amit Dutta’s Rhythm of a Flower and Nocturnes, directed by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan, gained prime honours on the closing ceremony of the MAMI Mumbai Movie Pageant 2024 right here on Thursday. The movie gala, organised by the Mumbai Academy of the Transferring Picture (MAMI), got here to a detailed with a ceremony the place the South Asia Competitors jury awarded the Golden Gateway Award to Rhythm of a Flower (Phool Ka Chand) and the Silver Gateway Award to Nocturnes. The jury was led by Rada Sesic and included Clarence Tsui, Kate Laurie, Jerome Baron, and Marie Fuglestein Laegreid.
The Particular Jury Prize was offered to Manoj Bajpayee’s movie The Fable, directed by Raam Reddy.
Shuchi Talati’s Ladies Will Be Ladies, which is produced by actor couple Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal, was honoured with a Particular Point out.
“I do know what all of us went by means of through the making of The Fable. It began earlier than COVID-19, so we went again, after which we once more went again up the mountain. We waited patiently as all of us believed within the movie. I wish to thank Raam for contemplating me for this movie,” Bajpayee stated.
Ladies Will Be Ladies additionally acquired the NETPAC Award and was honoured with the Movie Critics Guild Gender Sensitivity Award for difficult conventional gender stereotypes and advancing nuanced narratives. Moreover, the movie was recognised with the Rashid Irani Younger Critics Selection Award.
Whereas receiving the award for her co-production, Richa Chadha stated the popularity means loads to her and the staff of Ladies Will Be Ladies.
“It will all the time be an Indian movie, even when it is a global co-production. Kudos to the MAMI Movie Pageant for pulling it off. It is all the time concerning the freedom of expression, and that’s what issues,” Chadha stated.
Fazal added, “I have been watching the complete technique of filmmaking from the sidelines. Richa and I are co-producers with a number of others. It has been probably the most humbling and large studying course of as actors to look at Shuchi at play and all of the actors.” Talati, a first-time director, stated she is overwhelmed by the accolades her film has acquired.
“I really feel generally filmmakers make a distinction between art-house, impartial, and industrial cinema, as if this specific style will solely have a small part of the viewers. However I really feel what we’re taking away from the awards and from the screenings is the love the viewers gave to our movie,” she stated.
In Dimensions Mumbai, a sidebar part of the competition, the Gold Award went to BMCLD by Shreela Agarwal. The Silver Award was shared by A Story of Two Cities by Sameeha Sabnis and I Was Painted Pink by Bhagyesh Rajeshirke.
The Dimensions Mumbai jury included Amit Masurkar, Chaitanya Tamhane, and Paromita Vohra.
The awards for the Royal Stag Barrel Choose Massive Brief Movies had been additionally introduced.
The very best movie award went to “Ade (On A Sunday)” by Theja Rio, whereas the Particular Jury Prize went to “Coming Again to Life (Et Moi, Je Revis)” by Mantra Watsa for excellence in brief filmmaking.
The jury of this section included actors Aditi Rao Hydari, Rajshri Deshpande, and filmmaker Hansal Mehta.
Along with these awards, the MAMI competition additionally celebrated contributions to cinema with the Finest E-book on Cinema award given to The Age of Heroes: The Unbelievable World of Telugu Cinema by Mukesh Manjunath.
The closing ceremony was adopted by the screening of Sean Baker’s Anora, which had its South Asia premiere. Earlier this 12 months, the movie gained the Palme d’Or on the 77th Cannes Movie Pageant.
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