Perizaad’s Devaki in 5 international film fests 
By IndiaFM News Bureau, September 7, 2005 - 07:05 IST
A lot of our movies are creating a niche for themselves abroad. After Matrubhoomi, Raincoat and Antar Mahal, it’s time for Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s Devaki to win accolades abroad. Selected for five international film festivals, this Perizaad Zorabian –Suman Ranganathan starrer is about two women who come to the village to teach English to young women. They find themselves brutally attacked by men close to them and one of them is auctioned off in Madhya Pradesh. The film is in the competition section in the Temecula Valley International Film Festival and Idaho International Film Festival both in U.S. as well as in the San Paulo Film Festival in Brazil. It has also been selected to be screened at the World Film Festival in Montreal and Festival Di Rio in Brazil. It is expected to release both in Hindi and English in November countrywide.
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