Ananth’s London dreams

Mee Sindhutai Sapkal — the Marathi film based on the amazing true story of Sindhutai Sapkal — has been selected officially for the prestigious London Film Festival that kicks off on October 13, 2010.
The BFI backed festival announced the selection at a press conference in London on October 8. The film has its world premiere in London where it will be screened at the prestigious South Bank on October 14, 15 and 16.The film has been produced by Sachin Khanolkar-Bindiya Khanolkar and directed by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, whose recent release Red Alert — The War Within, had come in for similar worldwide acclaim.
Sindhutai, who presently resides in Hadapsar, a suburb in Pune suburb, picked up the pieces of her fragmented life to stage a miraculous come back from the verge of killing herself.
Close on the heels of the London festival selection, comes the South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) at New York, where the movie was “simply loved”. The cast includes National award-winning actor Upendra Limaye, Tejaswini Pandit and Jyoti Chandekar.
Times Music, which rarely releases film music, was so impressed by the compositions of Ashok Patki and the classic poetry of GD Madgulkar and Suresh Bhatt, that they have brought out a special collector’s edition of the music of the film.
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