Chokher Bali , whish has Aishwarya Rai in the role of a young widow, was screened to a stupendous response at this year's Indian Film Festival at Los Angeles (IFFLA).
Vishal Bharadwaj's highly-acclaimed Maqbool won the Best Feature Film award.
The five-day festival, which concluded on April 18 with the screening of Sudhir Misra's much-acclaimed Hazaaron Khwahishen Aisi, also paid rich tributes to National Award winning actress Kiron Kher , whose films Bariwali and Khamosh Pani were also screened at the fete.
The fete evoked a tremendous response, specially from the local population.
The stupendous response to the screening of Rituparno Ghosh's "Chokher Bali", which was the opening film at the five-day festival, was undoubtedly one of the standout events of the fete.
Films like Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool, Karan Johar 's Kal Ho Na Ho , Mani Rathnam 's "Alai Payuthey", Santosh Sivan's "Malli" , Amol Palekar's "Anahat" (marathi) and K Asif's cine classic "Mughal-E-Azam" were screened to near full houses at the IFFLA, which witnessed a huge audience of Indian filmmakers, academics, journalists and industry representatives join in the "celebration of the best of Indian cinema".
