Titled as ‘My Big Fat Bride’.
AB Wire
NEW YORK: Yash Raj Films’ ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’, titled as ‘My Big Fat Bride’ – with English sub-titles – will be the closing night feature at the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), the country’s longest-running South Asian film festival.
The six-day festival (May 4 to 9) will showcase more than 30 shorts, documentaries and feature films, along with special events, networking parties and Q&A sessions with directors, actors and producers.
‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’, directed by Sharat Katariya, stars Ayushmann Khuranna and debutant Bhumi Pednekar, in lead roles. It’s a heartfelt story about a mismatched couple trying to find themselves and each other between their own complexes and dysfunctional, yet endearing, families.
NYIFF 2015’s Panel of Jurors includes (in alphabetical order, by last name):
- Parag Amladi
- Ashish Avikunthak
- Dev Benegal
- Tejaswini Ganti
- Udayan Gupta
- Le Frances Hui
- Poorna Jagannathan
- Joseph Mathew
- Myrna Moncayo-Iyengar
- Claus Mueller
- Muriel (Mike) Peters
- Zenobia Shroff
- Nilita Vachani.