Indian movies to be premiered at iView Film Festival
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oi-Kalyani Prasad Keshri
By Kalyani Prasad Keshri
The
iView
Film
Festival
that
will
be
held
for
the
third
time
in
New
York
from
18
to
26
September
is
supposed
to
screen
Indian
movies
mostly.
Onir"s
I
Am
will
be
premiered
on
the
inaugural
day
of
the
festival
and
the
Bollywood
movie
Mirch,
a
Big
Pictures" production,
will
mark
the
end
of
the
gala.
The
festival
director,
Myna
Mukherjee,
said
that
cinema
is
a
most
powerful
and
effective
way
to
make
reforms
in
the
societies
and
change
the
mindset
of
people
who
are
silent
about
fundamental
issues
of
human
rights,
gender
and
social
iniquities.
She
expressed
her
thrills
over
the
amplification
of
the
festival"s
mission
with
many
voices
as
a
most
popular
media
to
throw
focus
on
the
issues.
Onir"s
I
Am
is
a
sharp
focus
on
common
and
conflicting
issues
like
homosexuality,
unmarried
motherhood
and
childhood
sex
abuse
in
India.
The
United
Nations
Development
Program
has
supported
the
director"s
motive
behind
this
movie.
Mirch,
directed
by
Vinay
Shukla,
is
an
album
of
four
stories
having
infidelity
as
common
theme.
It
stars
Raima
Sen,
Konkona
Sen
Sharma,
Vinay
Shukla,
Shreyas
Talpade,
Prem
Chopra,
Arunoday
Singh,
Boman
Irani
and
Shahana
Goswami.
Dunno
Y...
Na
Jaane
Kyun,
directed
by
Sanjay
Sharma,
too,
will
be
premiered
at
the
festival.
It
is
all
about
how
a
struggling
model
arrives
in
Mumbai
in
quest
of
fortune
and
fame,
and
ends
up
having
a
relationship
with
a
man.
It
stars
Zeenat
Aman,
Rituparna
Sengupta,
Helen,
Kapil
Sharma
and
Maradona
Rebello.