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Film-makers and stars head for 'Oscars' in Dubai |
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5/27/2006 10:05:45 AM |
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The Bollywood awards season has virtually come to a close, with Black, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's brilliant film about the relationship between a deaf mute and her inspirational teacher, winning in many of the major categories.
There's still one more award ceremony to come, hosted by the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA). It is considered by many to be India's equivalent of the Oscars.
Every year since the inaugural event in London it has been held in a different venue across the globe, including Sun City, Malaysia, Johannesburg, Singapore and Amsterdam.
This year the ceremony is to be staged in Dubai and promises to be another glittering affair. Bhansali's Black seems set to run away with all the major awards once again.
But before the Bollywood jet set head off to the sun-soaked beaches of Dubai, many of them will be making a pit stop at another star-studded event, the Cannes Film Festival.
Ever since Bhansali premiered his magnum opus Devdas, with stars Aishwarya Rai (much loved at Cannes) and Shahrukh Khan in tow, at the world's premiere film festival in 2002, many of their counterparts have showcased their films there as well.
At the latest film festival, a plethora of Bollywood film-makers and producers are displaying their wares to a global community keen to sample the latest that Bollywood has to offer
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Taking advantage of the worldwide interest in all things Indian is production company UTV with their excellent Aamir Khan starrer, Rang De Basanti. Vishal Bharadwaj, a director whose films are normally far removed from the excessive trappings of Bollywood, will premiere his film Omkara.
An adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, it stars Ajay Devgan, Bipasha Basu, Saif Ali Khan and Viveck Oberoi, all major Bollywood stalwarts.
The soap opera brigade will be led by Karan Johar (Kabhie Khushi Kabhi Gham), whose latest Bollywood tearjerker, Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna, is sure to find many takers.
Interestingly, although the Bollywood onslaught on Cannes has just begun, many noteworthy Indian films were invited to be a part of the competition or were merely screened at the festival as far back as 1954, when Bimal Roy's Do Bhiga Zameen won the Prix Internationale.
It will be interesting to see if any of this year's offerings will catch the attention of the glitterati at Cannes.
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