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“I am proud to present Dekh Indian Circus” – Imtiaz Ali

en Bollywood News “I am proud to present Dekh Indian Circus” – Imtiaz Ali

After winning Asia's Top Honor at Busan in the Best Film - Audience Choice category Dekh Indian Circus 'An Emotional and Entertaining Story with a Soul' as Imtiaz Ali describes it, won 4 National Awards in Best Children's Film, Best Child Actor (Virendra Pratap), Special Jury award (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and Special Mention (Tannishtha Chatterjee) categories.


A visibly and albeit evidently proud Imtiaz Ali who presents his first ever film, expresses his joy saying, "I am very happy and proud about the national awards that this film has won. I congratulate all the actors and entire team for this esteem honor. I have never presented a film before. The reason why I am doing that for Dekh Indian Circus is because this is exactly the kind of film that I would like to reach to the maximum amount of people. It is a very caliber entertaining picture with great cinematic value. It is going to be my endeavour to popularize it as much as I can."


"Dekh Indian Circus just happened to me. I had never thought that I will ever present a film. I thought that my work is not to present a film and that I can only direct films, that I cannot do anything else. But as I said earlier, when I saw the film, I decided that this film should reach to all the people in the country. And that is how I became the presenter of Dekh Indian Circus", says Imtiaz while explaining the reason why he chose to venture into feature film presentation.


When further prodded about what he feels are the high points of the film, Imtiaz seamlessly takes on the role of a movie critic, elaborately dissecting the film highlighting the underlying emotional currents, "People generally have an impression that a film has its story based in the rural area is boring. But that's not true. I found Dekh Indian Circus to be very refreshing and entertaining. The story has a message. It is about this family in the rural India that wants to go to a circus. The plot then draws a parallel, showing how life in a rural area is similar to life in a circus. At the end of it, you feel a strong emotional connect with the story and the characters in the film. Especially this film, which is very well meaning and entertaining. The visuals of the film are very picture perfect. In fact after watching the film, I felt proud that I belong to the same country. They have shown the reality and real scenario there. The film is visually very exhilarating and at the same time, is emotionally connecting; when today films based in villages are so rare... I have all the faith in the film, it has great potential."


The film which has music given by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, and lyrics by Prasoon Joshi is directed by Mangesh Hadawale, who also won a National Award for his first film Tingya. Says Mangesh, "My philosophy is that truth is beautiful. To capture the beauty of truth, you don't need creativity as much as you need honesty and courage. I believe that Dekh Indian Circus captures some truth in a light-hearted way and it is this truth that the audiences world-over are connecting to."


Post winning the National Award, the producers of the film Mahaveer S Jain, Chirag D Shah and Anil Lad say, "National Award is the most respected and prestigious award for any film... Producers strive and work towards it for years. We are blessed to receive it with our very first film. We just want to thank the entire cast and crew for their amazing work and ensuring that Dekh Indian Circus was made the way it is."


On the other hand, Nawazuddin and Tannishtha, who also garnered rave reviews for the film and even bagged National Awards, are super excited about the film. Says Nawaz, "I am very happy that Dekh Indian Circus got four National Awards. I like to do movies which are different and when I heard the script for this one, I did not even think once before saying a yes for it. It makes me happy that this kind of talent is recognized. I have big hopes from the film as it has great soul."


Adds Tannishtha, "Dekh Indian Circus has been a very special film to me. I would like to congratulate the whole team for winning four national awards. And a great applause for Mangesh Hadawale for writing and directing such a brave and beautiful film. And three cheers for Mahaveer and Chirag to have the courage to produce and support such a good film. A very special hug to Virendra Pratap Rathode, who played my little son and who is the soul of the film, for winning the best child actor."


However, the best as usual is kept for the last, with the lad Virendra Pratap who makes his debut with the film emotionally recollecting his experiences saying, "I live in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan and had never ever seen camera in my life. I saw the camera on first day of my shoot and getting National award for acting is like a dream...I'm very very happy and grateful to my director and other actors."

“I am proud to present Dekh Indian Circus” – Imtiaz Ali

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