Notícias

Chilean film My Last Round (Mi Ultimo Round) directed by Julio Jorquera Arriagada won the Best Feature Film Award at the 3rd Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival which concluded on May 27, 2012.

My Last Round is a story set in conservative Southern Chile about a working class relationship between two men – a boxer and a kitchen assistant.

Chief Guest Bollywood actor Anupam Kher who gave away the prize for the Best Film announced that he would sponsor the prize money from next year of Rs 50,000. “Cinema is meant to break barriers and Kashish is a wonderful attempt to provide a mainstream platform for the Lgbt community which is relegated to the margins,’’ said Kher.

Kher also gave away the Riyad Wadia Award for Best Emerging Indian Filmmaker, which went to The Night is Young (Raat Baki) directed by Pradipta Ray. Raat Baki deals with three persons – two queer and one...

It’s been a year of quite a many new faces. While it’s no surprise that Bollywood has always been a dream for many aspiring artists, few actually see their dream come true. And for some, Bollywood just comes to happen by chance. Like they say, it’s all destiny. Which is why a musician by choice and a sound engineer by profession, Harsh Parekh, never thought that he would see himself in front of the camera, onscreen. Here the debutant from Shakal Pe Mat Ja talks exclusively to BollySpice about music, acting and Bollywood.

What was your state of mind just before the release of your movie?

Well, there was nervousness, excitement – feeling of excitement overpowered everything else. After the initial shows I got calls from my cousins and friends all over who told me that the theatres are packed and that there’s a lot of crowd...