Special Jury Award to Kannada film Nayi Neralu directed by Girish Kasaravalli

Girish Kasaravalli's Nayi Neralu has won the Special Jury Award at Osian's Cinefan 8th Festival of Asian Cinema that was held in New Delhi on 14-23 July 2006. Interestingly, a Tulu film 'Suddha' directed by Balakrishna P. N. has bagged the Best Film award in the Indian Competition section. The awards were announced by the organizers couple of minutes ago.

The four-time Golden Lotus award winner, director Girish Kasaravalli known for his penchant to adopt published literary works for his celluloid aesthetics is in news for his latest movie Nayi Neralu produced by Abhishek Patil and Basant Kumar Patil (Basant Productions). Based on Dr. Girish Kasaravalli

S.L. Bhyrappa's novel, this movie is an attempt to capture the inversion of social values held by three different generations - a mother for whom only faith is essential, the daughter for whom its her living experiences and the granddaughter who swears by rational thinking.

A Total of ten films - eight Indian and one each from Indonesia and Saudi Arabia had their world premieres at this film festival and Nayi Neralu was in the Indian Competition section. Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema has singularly changed the way festivals are conducted in India and it deserves a special mention. Of all the small festivals that have cropped in the past decade like the Calcutta festival, Mumbai fest and many others have not managed to generated so much interest from around the world particularly in Asia like this one organized by Messrs Nevile Tuli and Aruna Vasudev.

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