Jury Grand Prize, 2013
Ritesh Batra
The Lunchbox
Winner, Best Screenplay, 2013 Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2013 Ritesh Batra is a writer/director based in Mumbai and New York. In 2009, Batra was selected…
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Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2013
As a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin bans every kind of image in his water locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even claims that imagination is sinful. But change is a desperate wind and the tension between tradition and modernity grows to such an extent that it starts to leave a ripple effect on the lives of a group of typically colourful and eccentric people in the village. In the end, television, which Chairman Amin hated so much, comes to his rescue and helps him reach a transcendental state where he and his God are unified.
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