Bidita nearly missed the National Film Award

Model-turned-actress Bidita Bag who is making her Bollywood debut with From Sydney With Love, says that her film, As The River Flows nearly won the National Award this year but was shelved because it was not entirely in Hindi.
“Its sounds a little funny to me, but they said the film has many languages in it, Assamese, Hindi etc, hence it cannot be classified under the Hindi film category.But if that’s true, how come the song Senorita (From Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara) won an award? That’s Spanish, right?” says Bidita. This makes it Bidita’s second politically controversial film, with the first being the Bengali film Chokker Pani which was filmed on Nandigram and is yet to be released.
As The River Flows, which is produced by NFDC and directed by Bidyut Kotoky, is going to be screened at Osian Film Fest beginning July 29. This film is based on the real life story of a social activist Sanjoy Ghosh who was kidnapped in Assam in 1997 and his friend who is a journalist, who tries to go on his trail.