Renowned
filmmaker Prakash Jha will be among headliners at the 3rd
Washington, DC, South Asian Film Festival, which will be held in Gaithersburg,
MD, just outside of the US capital.
The festival will start on September 11
with a red carpet gala reception, followed by the opening ceremony, which be
attended by acclaimed artists from India.
The veteran director-actor-writer’s two
critically acclaimed works, the1985 film Damul and 1989 movie Parinati,
will be among the main attractions this year.
Damul, set in the
Bihar of mid-1980s, depicts bonded labor, exodus of laborers and caste
politics. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
Parinati - a folk
tale about human greed set in Rajasthan, featured actors, Basant Josalkar,
Surekha Sikri, Sudhir Kulkarni and Nandita Das.
Prakash Jha “It’s always an honour to
have one’s films playing at a festival.This one is particularly special because
two of my older films – Damul and Parinati are being screened.I’m looking
forward to the screening and the interactive sessions.
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