Mani Ratnam to be honored at Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world, will be held this year from September 1-11 and will include a screening of Ratnam’s upcoming film Raavan, starring husband and wife Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The film is being released in Hindi and Tamil and both versions will be screened at the festival. Raavan releases in theaters worldwide on June 18.
Ratnam has been making films in various Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada, since 1983, including two acclaimed Bollywood pictures, Yuva (2004) and Guru (2007), both starring Abhishek Bachchan.
Raavan is said to be an adaptation of the Ramayana, a Hindu epic about the god Rama and his wife Sita, who is kidnapped by a demon king. Oscar and Grammy winner A.R. Rahman composed the film’s soundtrack.
Past winners of the Glory to the Filmmaker prize have gone to American actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone, French director Agnes Varda, Italian director and screenwriter Abbas Kiarostami, and Japanese filmmaker and actor Takeshi Kitano. The prize honors those who have significantly impacted contemporary cinema.
Last year, three Indian movies were screened at the Venice Film Festival: Anurag Kashyap's Dev D and Gulaal and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi 6.
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May 26, 2010
