Passion Bears Fruit

Indian independent cinemas path-breaking director Ketan Mehtas Rang Rasiya has won the Audience Award at the 2nd London Indian Film Festival.

Written by EXPRESS FEATURES SERVICE

July 17, 2011 01:05 AM IST

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Indian independent cinemas path-breaking director Ketan Mehtas Rang Rasiya (Colours Of Passion) has won the Audience Award at the 2nd London Indian Film Festival. Audiences voted for their favourite films across 28 screenings during the festival. I am thrilled that my passion project has won the coveted audience award at the London Indian Film Festival. The premiere in the historic surroundings of the Victoria & Albert museum was wonderful and the interaction with London audiences was great. This award is the icing on the cake, said Mehta. He has another reason to be satisfied Rang Rasiya a biopic of famous Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma,will finally hit the screens in India in the last week of September with an A certificate,informed the filmmaker. The films release had been stuck for a year-and-a-half due to a lack of interested distributors.