Bad Man Awarded for Being Good

Yet another Bollywood actor joins the queue of international red carpet walkers. This time it is “bad man” Gulshan Grover,who has bagged the Best Actor International award at the New York City Film Festival for his performance as an Indian holy man,Dada Bhagwan,in Desperate Endeavors. “Grover’s performance was so compelling that he almost radiated an aura of a holy man. The jury voted for him unanimously as the Best Actor International,” says Roberto Rizzo,CEO and Founder of New York City Film Festival.

Desperate Endeavors,about an Indian immigrant in New York City of the 1970s,has been directed by the French-Algerian-American filmmaker Sam Khassa.