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Shreya to walk the red carpet at Toronto film fest
The posh Toronto International Film Festival, which opens on September 10, has a unique lineup of Indian films this year. The two Bollywood entries are Ashutosh Gowariker"s What"s Your Raashee, and first time director Anurag Singh"s Dil Bole Hadippa. Both share a common trait. They"re both female-centric products from a film industry notorious for male domination.
And now Dilip Mehta; brother of Deepa Mehta, has just been selected for the Toronto Film Festival. He has been selected in the prestigious Gala section that opens the festival, where Jon Amiel"s Creation a biopic on Charles Darwin is being premiered.
Dilip who has earlier made a much-acclaimed documentary on Indian widows is singularly kicked by the honour. “The Toronto International Film Festival is, after Cannes, undoubtedly the most significant festival worldwide. To have one"s film participate in it is glory enough, but to have a Gala screening, and a world premiere is mind-blowing."
This was the very section where Dilip"s sister Deepa"s elegiac Water had been premiered in Toronto, two years ago.
Dilip"s film is in a different mood space. “For 34 years I have covered death, misfortune, war, plagues and other human tragedies for Time, Newsweek, National Geographic and other such major journals. I entered the world of cinema with The Forgotten Woman, a hard documentary to portray the reality of the widows of India. Similarly, Cooking With Stella, also looks at a classic Indian tragedy, that of servants and employers but without wanting to give a lecture on morality."
Cooking
With
Stella
was
short
listed
for
the
Opening
Gala
of
the
Toronto
festival,
along
with
Creation.
Says
Dilip,
“For
me
as
first-time
feature
director,
this
was
such
a
tremendous
high
to
have
our
film
in
the
company
of
such
an
amazing
film.
Creation
nipped
us
all
in
the
post,
but
we
were
right
up
there.
TIFF
selected
Cooking
With
Stella
for
a
Gala
screening
for
our
world
premiere
on
September
16."
Seema Biswas and Shreya Saran will be there, gracing the red carpet. Enthuses Dilip, “The numbers are daunting. Approximately 3000 plus films are submitted for TIFF, which along with Cannes is the most significant film festival in the world today. Of these 350- plus are selected for the Festival of which 15 or so have the distinction of a Gala screening at the amazing Roy Thomson Hall."
