Naman Ramachandran Amit Dutta’s hand-drawn animation “Rhythm of a Flower” (Phool Ka Chand) has won the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival‘s Golden Gateway Award, the event’s top accolade.
The film is a biopic chronicling the twilight years of Indian classical singer Kumar Gandharva. Dutta is an auteur whose works have been frequently shown at the Venice, Rotterdam, Berlin and Jeonju film festivals.
Anupama Srinivasan and Anirban Dutta’s documentary on Himalayan moths, “Nocturnes,” won the festival’s Silver Gateway Award.
The film previously won awards at Sundance and Thessaloniki. Raam Reddy’s “The Fable,” starring Manoj Bajpayee, which chronicles the unravelling of a family after a series of mysterious fires, won the festival’s Special Jury Prize.
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