Two scripts of Adil Hussain starred movie Sunrise and Parched, very few scripts of the films produced from India to be archived at the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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| Adil Hussain in the stellar role as Inspector Joshi in the Sunrise movie |
Sunrise is a
drama film directed and written by Partho Sen-Gupta , released in
2014 internationally. Sunrise just released in India on NETFLIX on
March 15th, 2017. It tells the story of a police officer, played excellently by
Adil Hussain as Inspector Lakshman Joshi , a grieving father, searching for his
daughter Aruna, who was kidnapped years ago at the age of six and is hell-bent
on settling the scores with the abductor. Along
with Sunrise the other Adil Hussain Starrer ‘Parched’ film’s script to be
archived at the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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| Partho Sen Gupta, Director of the award winning movie ' Sunrise ' |
Sunrise , whose
production and technical team are Franco-Indian, is screened at numerous
international festivals where it is awarded several times at Amsterdam, Durban
and Munich Film Festivals.
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| Awards bagged by Arunodaya| SUNRISE Movie |
SUNRISE Festival selections & Awards
1.
Busan International
Film Festival October 2014 (International Premiere in New Currents Competition)
2.
Mumbai Film Festival
(MAMI) 2014 (Indian Gold Competition)
3.
Dharamshala
International Film Festival 2014
4.
The International Film
Festival and Forumon Human Rights, Geneva-Feb 2015 (Competition)
5.
Vilnius International
Film Festival, Lithuania (Discovery section)
6.
Beaune Thriller Film
Festival, France (Young Blood Competition)
7.
Tribeca Film Festival,
New York - April 2015 (View points section)
8.
Stuttgart Indian Film
Festival, Germany
9.
Roffa Mon Amour,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
10.
Sydney Film Festival
11.
Melbourne
International Film Festival
12.
Melbourne Indian Film
festival
13.
Fantasia Film
Festival, Montreal (World Cinema)
14.
L’Ètrange Film
Festival, Paris (Mondovision section)
15.
Milano Film Festival
(Competition)
16.
Love & Anarchy -
Helsinki International Film Festival (World Cinema)
17.
Indian Film Festival
of Hague, Netherlands
18.
International
Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, Sitges (Noves Visions Competition)
19.
BFI London Film
Festival (Dare Strand)
20.
Nominated ‘Best Cinematography’
Asia-Pacific Screen Academy Awards
Actor Hemu Shetty , a well-known actor from Bollywood also being touted
as the next Bollywood Villain and Bollywood Baddie, recently ranked favourite
by bunt community within
the inner circle as the promising Actor in the Tulu Cinema,(now
coined as TULUWOOD),
also nicknamed as the Tulu Actor and with his long experience as an acting
coach,with an ability of a #HistrionicAnalyzer and penchant of an
#HistrionicWriter feels awed at the movie and compliments “Truly a heart-wrenching, emotionaly hitting and a cold-nerve stirring movie, that
evokes the histrionic ability of the character and the pychological theme
potrayal skill of the director, which gets into the intense story telling
characteristic mode,which hits the viewer in the wake up mode towards the dark
happenings in the surroundings and the society at large .”
Here's the
trailer link to SUNRISE https://youtu.be/Eoijr
Sunrise Official US Release Trailer 1
SYNOPSIS
"Sunrise", directed by
Partho Sen-Gupta starring Adi Hussain and Tannishtha Chatterjee, is the story of Inspector Joshi, in his despair, life converges
with a recurring dream in which Joshi pursues a shadowy figure who leads him to
'Paradise', a night-club where teenage girls dance to a leering crowd. He is
convinced he will find Aruna there and vows to bring her back to Leela, his
broken wife. The life of Lakshman Joshi, a policeman in Mumbai, has been shattered
since his daughter was kidnapped ten years earlier. While his wife sinks
into denial and continues to tell stories to their child, he tracks down the
slightest clue that could put him on the track of the kidnappers.A recurring dream
leads him to think that a serious track is at the Paradise, a night bar where
young teenagers dance before an audience of libidinous adults.
WRITER / DIRECTOR’S BIO
Partho Sen-Gupta was born in Mumbai, India. He started his career as an
apprentice in the art department in the studios of ‘Bollywood’ at the age of
17. He then set up his own design studio and worked on numerous advertising
films and feature films, designing sets and specializing in SFX. He was Art
director on Alain Corneau’s Nocturne Indien, shot in India in
1989. In 1993, he was awarded a scholarship to study film direction at the
FEMIS, the French film institute in Paris. He made four short films that took
him to different European film festivals at which he won several
awards. After graduation, he made his first feature film, ‘Hava Aney Dey’
– Let the wind Blow’ (93 mins, Hindi) which premiered at the 2004 Berlin
International lm festival. It was also selected by many other major
international lm festivals and won awards. It was screened at the MoMa, NYC for
the Global Film Initiative’s Global Lens 2008 series. His new award
winning feature film Sunrise (Arunoday), an Indo-French coproduction with Adil
Hussain and Tannishtha Chatterjee, premiered at the 19th Busan International film
festival in the New Currents Competition section and since has been selected at
numerous international film festivals like Tribeca FF, Munich Int. FF
etc. He now lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
Adil Hussain's Bio
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| Still from the Sunrise Movie, Adil Hussain as Inspector Joshi |
ADIL HUSSAIN is a Graduate
from the National School of Drama, New Delhi, he has acted on the stage
nationally & internationally for last 13 years. He played Pi’s father
in Ang Lee’s The Life of Pi and in an Italian production
of Mahasweta Devi’s Gangor by Italo Spinelli, which premiered at
the Rome International Film Festival. He works in both Bollywood mainstream films
and independent Indian films. He is a visiting Faculty member at the National
School of Drama, New Delhi and Film and Television Institute of India,
Pune for last several years where he teaches acting.
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