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More award wins for ‘Land Gold Women’
25th January 2010. Posted by Tara Tomes.
'Land Gold Women', the world’s first English feature to explore the issue of honour killings has won India’s National Awards for Best Film in the English language. The National Film Awards are the most prominent film awards in India and the country’s oldest. Due to the national scale of the awards, the National Film Awards are considered the equivalent of the American Academy Awards.
The film continues its dream run following a scoop of the prestigious Foreign Correspondent Association’s (FCA) Purple Orchid award for Best Film and the Best Script/Screenplay award at a glittering ceremony held at the renowned Raffles Hotel organized by the Asian Festival of First Films in Singapore.
'Land Gold Women', written and directed by Avantika Hari and produced by Vivek Agrawal premiered in the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India this year. The film received rave reviews for it’s “engaging and compelling story line which reaches out to an international audience, strong performance by the cast and a well crafted production.”
The winning film deals with the controversial issue of honour killing in a sensitive and restrained manner. The story is about the tough choice an immigrant Indian professor in Birmingham faces, between saving his family’s name or his teenage daughter when she is found to be in an illicit relationship. The film was shot in Birmingham, and stars newcomers Narinder Samra, Neelam Parmar, Ali Zahoor and Renu Brindle in key roles. They are supported by Hassani Shapi (The World is Not Enough, Star Wars) and Christopher Villiers (Sliding Doors, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Bloody Sunday, Kidulthood).