ÂOre Kadal' wins at German festival
- IndiaGlitz, [Tuesday,July 22 2008]
ÂOre Kadal (The Same Sea), ShyamaprasadÂs latest Malayalam film, won the audience award at ÂBollywood and BeyondÂ, Germany's only festival of Indian cinema.
Shyamaprasad received a trophy and a cash prize of 1,000 euros from Shobha De, author and celebrity socialite, on the concluding midnight ceremony.
The festival screened 20 feature films, 23 documentaries and 13 short films, over a period of five days. Manish Acharya's Loins of Punjab, Umesh Kulkarni's Valu, The Wild Bull and Jag Mundhra's slick, new film Shoot at Sight were the other important films that were competing with ÂOre Kadal for the awards.
ÂOre KadalÂ, featuring Mammootty and Meera Jasmine, based on the Bengali novel ÂHeerak Deepthy' was applauded widely in the festival circuits, where ever it was screened.