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Three films which wowed audiences in Cannes this year are coming to London, two have British Asian directors, while rising US stars Roshan Sethi and Karan Soni show their versatility…
WRITER-DIRECTOR Payal Kapadia’s first wholly narrative feature film, ‘All We Imagine as Light’ won the Grand Prix in Cannes.
We were at the press conference just after the announcement
The film is currently enjoying its first outing in India – in Kerala, in cinemas there. The film revolves around two migrant nurses (played by Vani Kusruti and Divya Prabha) from the state of Kerala, who live and work in Mumbai.
Very much a film about journeys, it starts in the Monsoon in Mumbai, before moving to the Maharashtra coastal city of Ratnagiri.
You can find our coverage of this film to date from Cannes here – http://asianculturevulture.com/?s=All+We+Imagine+As+Light
This film will go on release through the BFI from November 29 in the UK and Ireland…
BRIT Sandhya Suri’s ‘Santosh’ is all about a new women police officer who goes by the name of the title of the film.
She enters the force through a compassionate scheme that allows widows to enter the force that employed their late husbands.
Santosh (Shaman Goswami) comes under the spell of a particularly enigmatic woman police inspector Sharma (Sunita Rajwar).
Set in North India, ‘a low caste’ village girl is found raped and murdered and the hunt is on to find the culprit.
Sharma and Santosh are determined to deal justice but as you might fear the investigation doesn’t really go to plan or does it…?
This is the question Suri poses in her rich, absorbing, powerful film which lays bare many issues facing both modern and developing societies and centres two quite different women at the very heart of the drama.
Santosh on acv – http://asianculturevulture.com/?s=Santosh+
MORE on Brit Karan Kandhari’ ‘Sister Midnight’ on the interview page for this film… (to follow)
FOLLOWING up on his previous lockdown comedy drama, ‘7 Days’ comes Roshan Sethi’s ‘A Nice Indian Boy’.
A BFI Flare presentation, this is all about Americans Naveen and Jay. Playing with the conventional romcom fare, they meet, fall in love and decide to get engaged. Naveen hesitates on telling his family but it isn’t for reasons you might think – or is it? Sethi directs; with his partner Karan Soni in the lead alongside Jonathan Groff.
Sethi and Soni came to LFF 2022 for ‘7 days’ and spoke to us…
Check all BFI LFF (October 9-20) listings and AVAILABILITY HERE
Interview credits
Presenter-producer: Sailesh Ram
Camera-editing: Harry Clegg
