Passion Bears Fruit

Indian independent cinema’s path-breaking director Ketan Mehta’s 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 happy — Rang Rasiya,a biopic of famous Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma,“will finally hit the screens in India in September” with an A certificate,informed the filmmaker. The film’s release had been stuck for a year-and-a-half due to a lack on interested distributors.