Mumbai: Noted director Jahnu Barua has won the prestigious Kodak Vision Award for his film Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara at the just-concluded Fukuoka International Film Festival in Japan.
"It's a great feeling to win this honour. I am happy I could make the film conceived 10 years before it was actually produced, and the credit for it goes to Anupam Kher who came forward to produce it after talks with National Film Development Corporation fell through," Barua said.
The award, the only one given at the Fukuoka festival and chosen by a voting audience, comprises a citation, a trophy and negative film from Kodak worth 2.5 million yen.
"My biggest honour was that the film was highly appreciated by the Japanese audience and the organisers had to schedule two extra screenings," Barua said.
The citation, Barua said, noted his film's "true depiction of modern society" and its "emphasis on the need for Gandhian values".
The Kodak award is the latest of the honours garnered by the film, in which Anupam Kher portrayed a retired professor suffering from dementia.
The only other Indian film shown at the Fukuoka festival that ended on September 24 was Buddhadeb Dasgupta's Kalpurush (Memories in the Mist).
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara earlier won the Best Actor award at the Karachi Film Festival, the International Federation of Film Critics Award for Best Film at the International Film Festival in Mumbai (IFFM) and the Best Film and the Best Actor awards at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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