Eklavya wows Hollywood
By:
Taran
Adarsh,
IndiaFM
Tuesday,
March
27,
2007
Eklavya
-
The
Royal
Guard,
Vidhu
Vinod
Chopra's
stylish
movie,
stunned
Hollywood
luminaries
at
a
special
screening
on
Saturday,
24th
March
at
UCLA.
The
screening
was
jointly
sponsored
at
the
Billy
Wilder
theater
by
UCLA
and
MCorpGlobal.
The
audience
viewed
the
film
in
awed
silence
which
was
broken
only
for
the
prolonged
applause
and
standing
ovation
at
the
end
of
the
film.
Robert L. Friedman, the former President of Columbia Pictures and AMC Theaters, applauded it as one of the great foreign films to have graced Hollywood in recent years. He expressed hope that the film will become India's official entry for the Oscars, so that he would be able to urge the members of the Academy to vote for the film.
Dr. Rob Rosen, the Dean of UCLA's film program, found the film to be a kin of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magic realism. Lionel Wigram, producer of the Harry Potter films, said "He had seen nothing like this." Jeffrey Silver, producer of 300, found it to be "a thriller that elevates to the level of art."
Before the film, Ashok Amritraj introduced Vidhu Vinod Chopra to the audience as India's "terrific" director.
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