Love Sonia continues its winning streak with an
opening night at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne last night.
After the success of its premiere in UK, the
Melbourne screening received standing ovation as well. Director Tabrez Noorani
was present with his leading ladies Mrunal Thakur, Richa Chadha and Freida Pinto and was lauded for making a
‘heart wrenching, hard hitting and disturbingly moving’ film as mentioned by
most audience members present for the screening.
The film which is a hard-hitting story of a 17
year old girl who risks her life to rescue her sister from the sex trade is
shot in India, Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
The film has a strong ensemble cast including
Freida Pinto, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Richa Chadha, Anupam Kher, Adil
Hussain, Sai Tamhankar, Sunny Parwar, Demi Moore, Mark Duplass, Noorani is
introducing Mrunal Thakur as the lead character, as well as Riya Sisodiya.
Director Tabrez Noorani says, "It’s exciting
and such a privilege to bring Love Sonia to the Indian Film Festival Of
Melbourne. We hope the movie resonates with audiences here as it has in London
and I look forward to being able to interact with the audience here on the
opening night."
Producer David Womark shares, "Both Tabrez
and I are proud to have Love Sonia opening the Indian Film Festival of
Melbourne. Ang Lee has said that when there is a strong woman character in a
story--it always grabs him. We are very fortunate in Love Sonia to tell the
powerful story of a strong woman’s journey.”
Co-Producer Amar Butala said, "After a
standing ovation in London, I am extremely happy that Love Sonia has opened
another prestigious festival and has again been loved by the audience. We are
now gearing up after London and Melbourne to bring the film back home, to
India.”
After watching Love Sonia at IFFM 2018
last night filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani expressed, “The most disturbing film I
have ever seen in life and I am saying it in a good way. It requires tremendous
courage and empathy to do this, Big salute to the entire team of Love Sonia.”
After watching Love Sonia Actor Vicky Kaushal
shared, “Stunned and shocked and so moved after watching Love Sonia. Its one of
those rare movie experiences where you don’t wish to break the illusion that it
was a film you were watching after you are done with it. Every moment, every
performance is as real as it can get. Kudos to Tabrez for his brilliant
research and direction and to each and every actor in the film.
Love Sonia is scheduled to release in India in
September.
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