Colours Of Passion wins audience award at London Indian Film Festival

Ketan Mehta’s Colours Of Passion (Rang Rasiya) has won the audience award at the second London Indian Film Festival, which ran June 30 – July 12.

The film, about the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma (played by Randeep Hooda), was chosen from 28 screenings during the festival, which opened with the world premiere of Abhinay Deo’s Delhi Belly and closed with the UK premiere of Srijit Mukherhi’s Autograph.

The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s Short Film Award was presented to Andrew Hinton for his short film, Amar, about a poor but aspirational boy, with whom Hinton said that he would share his £1,000 prize money.

The festival also hosted the UK premiere of Anurag Kashyap’s That Girl In Yellow Boots at the BFI.  

Festival director Cary Sawhney said that “in spite of the recession, many people have got behind our festival and really made it work, including our internationally known team.”