‘Dhobi Ghat’ to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival
In the film, Khan plays the lead role of a painter. His character and several disparate others—including an affluent investment banker on vacation and a laundry boy who dreams of becoming an actor—are drawn into unlikely relationships with one other. It is set in Mumbai.
Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla, who won Academy Awards for best original score for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Babel (2006), has reportedly scored Dhobi Ghat.
Top filmmakers such as Robert Redford, Woody Allen, and Julian Schnabel will also be premiering their films at Toronto this year.
The Toronto International Film Festival is the largest film festival in the world in terms of attendance (300,000 tickets are sold). It features about 300 films from more than 60 countries each year.
Dhobi Ghat is expected to release worldwide later this year. The film will be distributed by Aamir Khan Productions, which is releasing two other films this year—Peepli Live and Delhi Belly.
Peepli Live got a strong reception at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival last January. It will release worldwide on August 13. The film is a black comedy about a debt-ridden farmer who creates a media frenzy when he announces that he will commit suicide so that his family can receive government assistance. Khan does not appear in it.
Delhi Belly is a comedy produced by Khan and starring his nephew, up-and-coming Bollywood actor Imran Khan.
Khan founded Aamir Khan Productions in 2001 and its first film, Lagaan (2001), starring Khan as a villager who takes on British authorities in a cricket match, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards—which was only the third time in history that an Indian film has been nominated for the award. Khan’s production company has released two other movies since, Taare Zameen Par in 2007 and Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na in 2008—both were critical and commercial successes.
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