The Hindu : Entertainment Delhi / Film Review: "IT'S A-15-minute film. It has no established actors and actresses, no mind boggling locations, no item numbers and not even Hindi language. Yet it is getting released this Friday at 14 cinema halls across the country. Out of which in Delhi it will be shown at PVR Saket besides two cinema halls in Gurgaon. In Mumbai it has got seven and in Pune three cinema halls. This film is Little Terrorist. In the Oscars, it is India's only hope in Best Live Action Short Film its Academy Awards.
The film already has gathered a few feathers in its cap. It has won the first prize at the Montreal Film Festival, Best Film award in Manhattan Film Festival and Flanders Film Festival. It is a Grand Prize winner in Teheran International Short Film Festival and has got Audience Choice Award in Sao Paulo international Short Film Festival. Kumar whose short film Road To Ladakh won critical acclaim and a few awards too at different film festivals.
Ashvin's next venture The Forest, "a jungle thriller on animal poaching with an opened ended treatment" will be a full-length feature film with Irfan, the 10-year-old boy of Little Terrorist as the protagonist. "
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
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