New Delhi: The ninth Osian’s Cinefan Festival, drew to a close on Sunday in the Capital after a week of some good cinema and a tanking celebrity quotient.“Festivals are so important for cinema. Why do you need a star to make it big? It’s about good cinema,” says actor Manoj Bajpai.
Kiron Kher adds, “People whose movies were screened have already come and gone.”
With the Japanese cinema being the main course this year around, the Hindi films remained nothing more than sumptuous appetiser on the Osian’s menu with just two awards in the kitty. Kay Kay Menon won the best actor award for his role in Shoonya and a film called Frozen, shot on the icy locales in Ladakh bagged the special jury award.
Tamil film Paruthiveeran won the award for best film and also the best actress for its female lead Priya Mani.
The award for the best film in the Arab and Asian section was bagged by Desert dream directed by a Chinese director Zhanglu, and the best actor award went to Arab actor Lotfi Abdeli for his role in the Tunisian film Making of.
But do festivals like this one spell good business for these independent filmmakers?
“We need to create an audience for it, and then its the demand and the supply,” says actress Nandita Das.
And it seems that’s the demand that has been inching up at Osian’s Cinefan.
“I have got a few distributors wanting for me at Mumbai and somebody asked me for Spanish rights of the films,” says director of Frozen, Shivajee Chandrabhushan.
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