By:
Taran
Adarsh,
IndiaFM
Wednesday,
October
10,
2007
Vidhu
Vinod
Chopra's
Eklavya
-
The
Royal
Guard
was
screened
on
4th
October
at
New
York
University.
The
film
was
screened
as
part
of
the
University's
Director's
Series.
Other
directors
featured
in
this
series
include
Ang
Lee,
Spike
Lee,
David
Lynch,
Martin
Scorcese
and
Sean
Penn.
The
screening
was
followed
by
an
hour-long
question
and
answer
session,
which
was
moderated
by
Richard
Allen,
the
Chair
of
Cinema
Studies
at
the
Tisch
School
of
Arts
at
N.Y.U.
On
6th
October,
Eklavya
was
screened
at
the
Peabody
Essex
Museum
in
Salem,
Massachusetts.
The
Peabody
Museum
is
among
the
oldest
museums
in
United
States
and
has
a
renowned
collection
of
modern
Indian
art.
Abhijat
Joshi,
the
writer
of
Eklavya
and
Lage
Raho
Munnabhai,
was
also
present
at
the
screenings.