Mumbai: On Friday, 30th October, ‘Dhanak’(Rainbow) will be premiering in India at PVR Juhu, as a part of the Jio MAMI 17th Mumbai Film Festival with Star India. The festival has a new section called ‘Half Ticket’ which is going to showcase movies specially meant for kids and young adults. ‘Dhanak’ which has won accolades in the international circuit, will open the festival in this category. The movie is written, directed by Nagesh Kukunoor and produced by Manish Mundra, Nagesh Kukunoor and Elahe Hiptoola.
‘Dhanak’ is the story of siblings, aged eight and ten who traverse across Rajasthan to fulfill a promise the elder sister made to her little brother. This year, the movie was honoured at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival with The Grand Prix of the Generation KPlus. The movie premiered at the festival and also received a special mention from Kids Jury there.
When asked what he was most looking forward to at the premiere of ‘Dhanak’, writer, director and co-producer Nagesh Kukunoor said, "It's exciting that ‘Dhanak’ is opening the Half ticket section at MAMI. In its international festival journey so far, ‘Dhanak’ has been shown to kids from many different countries. I'm really excited to see how ‘Dhanak’ will be received by Indian kids and to see if the story resonates as strongly with them as it did elsewhere.”
Making its debut this year, Half Ticket will present an exciting slate of 25 films from across the world including fiction, non-fiction and animation. For most children this will be their first exposure to world cinema. Each screening will be followed by post screening discussions in order to nurture a future audience for independent films. 12 features and 10 shorts will compete for silver gateway awards given by the children's jury. The Jury for Half Ticket will consist of 14 kids aged between 9 to 15 years from across Mumbai, 7 of whom will judge feature films and 7 will judge the short films.
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