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Two masters and siblings star in India’s Toronto mix

PTI
Published : Sep 14, 2016, 1:43 am IST
Updated : Sep 14, 2016, 1:43 am IST

Two leading lights of Indian cinema — Kerala’s Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Bengal’s Buddhadeb Dasgupta — and filmmaking siblings, Deepa and Dilip Mehta — are among those that are holding the flag aloft f

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Two leading lights of Indian cinema — Kerala’s Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Bengal’s Buddhadeb Dasgupta — and filmmaking siblings, Deepa and Dilip Mehta — are among those that are holding the flag aloft for the world’s most prolific movie-producing nation at the 41st Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

India has never had as many films in TIFF’s Masters sidebar as it does this year, with Torontonian Deepa Mehta, with the docudrama Anatomy of Violence, joining section regulars Adoor and Dasgupta to give the country a rare count of three in the coveted section. In an informal chat ahead of an official presentation of Anatomy of Violence, an unsettling of examination of the Nirbhaya gangrape in Delhi in 2012, TIFF director Piers Handling said: “Usually, a country has only one film in the TIFF Masters section. France is perhaps the only exception.”

Handling said: “We love the cinema of Adoor and Dasgupta because of the way they depict the contemporary social realities of India in a unique and artistic manner.”

Reminded that back in India, the two masters are “on the fringes” of the movie industry, Handling said, “That is true of the entire world. In an industry dominated by commercial films, auteurs have to struggle for space.” While Adoor’s latest film Pinneyum (Once Again) screened in Toronto on Monday.

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