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Toronto Int'l Film Festival

Indian women directors on cloud nine

Pallab Bhattacharya, New Delhi
Indian-origin directors Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta are thrilled that their latest feature films “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” and "Midnight's Children” will be screened at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
And why not? After all, the TIFF, in its 37th edition, has already come to be considered as the start of the countdown to Hollywood's Oscar season and is ranked on par with the festivals at Cannes and Sundance.
Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The King's Speech," which were screened at the TIFF, went on to win best-film awards at the Oscars.
While it will be a world premiere for Mehta's "Midnight’s Children”, based on Booker of Bookers award winner novelist Salman Rushdie’s book, at TIFF, for Nair's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, based on Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid's book of the same name and starring Shabana Azmi and Om Puri, it will be a North America premiere at Toronto.
Before going to Toronto, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, will have its world premiere at Venice Film Festival which opens for the first time with a film by a director of Indian origin.
While Mehta is based in Toronto, Nair is based in Uganda and the US.
It is expected to be an eventful year for Indian women directors at TIFF this time as Gauri Shinde’s new film “English Vinglish” will
also have its world premiere in Toronto. A major attraction of the film is that it marks what many anticipate to be the comeback film for former Bollywood star Sridevi.
According to TIFF sources, about a dozen films from India will be screened at this year’s festival.
The City to City section of the festival will have ten films cutting across genres and the
focus will be on India's financial and entertainment capital Mumbai.
The 37th edition of TIFF will feature films starring Ryan Gosling, Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut.
"Looper," directed by Rian Johnson and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis will be the opening film of TIFF.
Also to be screened at the festival are political thriller "Argo", helmed by and starring Ben Affleck, Robert Redford's "In the Company You Keep," about a civil-rights lawyer exposed as a fugitive for murder and the much-anticipated "Cloud Atlas," an adaptation of the bestselling novel starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, directed by Twyker and "Matrix" codirectors Andy and Lana Wachowski.