Anil Kapoor Attends A Special Screening “Once Again”
Anil Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Renu Namboodiri, Mrs. Madhur Bhandarkar & Sunita Gowariker attended the Special Screening of Once Again held in Mumbai suburb recently.
The cast Neeraj Kabi, Shefali Shah, Bidita Bag, Bhagwan Tiwari were also present along with the crew, director Kanwal Sethi, producers Sanjay Gulati & Neeraj Pandey, Mohandas VP (Sound Designer) & Ajitpal Singh (dialogue writer).
The independent film fest programmer, film curator & South Asia Consultant Berlin, Meenakshi Shedde introduced the cast & the crew before the screening.
The film will be out on Netflix on 1st Sept, 2018 & will also be simultaneously releasing in Metro Cities through 1018 MB.
The love story features Shefali Shah & Neeraj Kabi in the romantic lead & stellar cast Rasika Dugal, Bidita Bag, Bhagwan Tiwari & Priyanshu Painyuli in supporting roles.
Witten & directed by Kanwal Sethi, Once Again is an unusual & mature love story of Tara, a widowed mother who runs a small restaurant & one of her customers, a popular film actor Amar, who she delivers his daily meals. Tara has never seen him, except on the big screen. A chance phone conversation becomes a ritual. They spend hours on the phone, unable to muster the courage to meet. Aware of the reality of an impossible relationship & afraid to transcend the boundaries both have drawn around themselves they live within their safe bubbles. Until one day, when Amar sets out to meet Tara What follows is a poetic journey of the two lonely hearts in Mumbai, a city of 15 million souls.
Anil Kapoor present at the special screening quipped, “When Shefali & Neeraj are in a film together it has to be good”
The music composer, Talvin Singh, who has been at the helm of fusion music & has played with the likes of Madonna creates an enchanting & melodious soundtrack.
The Indo-German film is produced by Crawling Angel Films, Jar Pictures, Neufilm in collaboration with ZDF/ARTE & is presented by
Sanjay Gulati & Neeraj Pandey.
ZDF/ARTE are the powerful channels behind films like Lunchbox, Masaan & Qissa.
Kanwal Sethi was born in Amritsar, India. After finishing school, he founded a theatre group & began to stage at varied independent theatres. He shifted to Germany & studied Political science & Economics in Dresden. Followed by his own stage productions and parallel to this he started work on his own film projects. His short films & docu dramas were screened at varied international film festivals as well as the Museum of Modern Art New York. Junction Point was his debut feature film & premiered at Max ÖphulsPreis & MAMI.
Since Neu Films successfully started producing films a decade ago, they are constantly confronted with the phenomenon of a separation of art & commerce. Arthouse & mainstream seem to be often incompatible in the industry. The aim of Neufilm is to connect these 2 poles & make the author film accessible to a broader audiences.
Crawling Angel Films is a film production company based in India that aims to tell the world unique stories through films, which have the quality to capture human emotions through their strong narratives. The dedicated team of Crawling Angel Films is all set out to dissolve the boundaries between the varied nations of the globe by getting them well versed with 1 universal language, the language of Cinema. They have produced award-winning films such as, Lajwanti (Berlin International Film Fest 2014), Ashwatthama (Busan International Film Fest 2017), Mehsampur & The Shepherdess And The Seven Songs (co-production lab in Film Bazaar & Hong Kong International Film Fest) is currently under the process of shooting.
