HOME | SCOOP!! & NEWS | HAPPENINGS Six Indian films to be shown at London Film Festival13th Sept 2008 11.00 IST By Agencies Six Indian films are set to be screened at 52nd London Film Festival to be held mid-October. Veteran Bollywood director Shyam Benegal's maiden comedy Welcome to Sajjanpur and critically acclaimed actress Nandita Das ’ directorial debut Firaaq are among six Indian films. 
The festival, organised by the British Film Institute, will screen over 180 feature films from more than 40 countries from 15 to 30 October. Starring Shreyas Talpade and Amrita Rao , 'Welcome to Sajjanpur' is the story of an educated village youth who, instead of fulfilling his ambition to become a novelist, starts writing letters to earn a living. With Naseeruddin Shah and Deepti Naval in the lead roles, 'Firaaq' is set against a backdrop of communal riots and its aftermath which alters the lives of its characters. This film has also been nominated for the FIPRESCI Critics Award. The other Indian films are Santosh Sivan directed Tahaan , Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya ‘Colours of Passion', Shashank Ghosh's 'Quick Gun Murugan' and Atul Sabharwal's short film 'Midnight Lost and Found'. The festival will also screen Mehreen Jabbar's Ramchand Pakistani , a film which depicts a Pakistani Hindu father and son who are arrested as they accidentally cross the border into India. Related view Nandita Das videos (new) Firaaq view Shreyas Talpade videos (new) view Amrita Rao videos (new) view Naseeruddin Shah videos (new) view Deepti Naval videos (new) view Tahaan trailers and videos (new) Rang Rasiya Ramchand Pakistani | ALSO READ scoop ~ Michael Jackson converts to Islam: report ~ A R Rahman inspires people to vote! ~ Hrithik Roshan to play lord Ram? ~ Sada enters Bollywood with 'Khallballi' ~ Konkona Sen does a lesbian act! ~ Ash and Bon Jovi unite for Live Earth ~ How Salman improvised a romantic scene with Katrina! ~ Katrina Kaif did 'Yuvvraaj' for emotional reasons ( more in scoop ) happenings ~ Big B, Bon Jovi and Roger Waters team up for a cause ~ 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!' to premiere at IFFI ( more in happenings ) AKC HOT INDEX ECARDS > Halloween, New Year, Diwali, Birthday, Valentines, Love, Christmas MOVIES Dostana, Dasvidaniya, Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi, EMI, Golmaal Returns, Fashion, Heroes, Roadside Romeo, Kidnap, Drona, Yuvvraaj , Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi , Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! , Sorry Bhai MUSIC Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi , Yuvvraaj celebs » wallpapers » the celeb A-Z who's in » Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Ranbir Kapoor | Harman Baweja | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan | Imran Khan | Shahrukh Khan | Salman Khan | Aamir Khan | Hrithik Roshan | Akshay Kumar | Zayed Khan | Saif Ali Khan | John Abraham | Shahid Kapur | Kareena Kapoor | Vidya Balan | Priyanka Chopra | Rani Mukherjee | Mallika Sherawat | Bipasha Basu | Preity Zinta | Kajol | Neha Dhupia | Sameera Reddy | Juhi Chawla | Karisma Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit | Zeenat Aman | Payal Rohatgi | Sneha Ullal | Mahima Chaudhary | Meghna Naidu | Gayatri Joshi | Rakhi Sawant | Bhumika Chawla | Lisa Ray | Dimple Kapadia | Ayesha Takia | Dia Mirza | Sushmita Sen | Amisha Patel | Esha Deol | Amrita Rao | Amrita Arora | Genelia D'Souza | Arjun Rampal | Amitabh Bachchan | Vivek Oberoi | Raima Sen | Riya Sen | Rekha | Rimi Sen | Nigar Khan | Tanushree Dutta | Yana Gupta | Deepal Shaw | Shilpa Shetty | Celina Jaitley | Sonam Kapoor | Neha Oberoi | Nisha Rawal | Manjari Fadnis | Kamal Haasan | Rajnikant | Asin | Sanjay Dutt | Shahid Kapoor | Sherlyn Chopra | Farhan Akhtar | Prachi Desai | Koel Purie | Shahana Goswami | Adah Sharma | Kangana Ranaut | Anushka Sharma | Mugdha Godse | Masumeh Makhija | Minissha Lamba | Vidya Malvade | Malaika Arora | Shweta Kumar | | more... | 
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