MUMBAI: Tabez Noorani’s “Love Sonia”, featuring Richa Chadha, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, is all set to open The Bagri London Indian Film Festival to be held from June 21 to July 12. The ninth edition of the festival will be held in three UK cities – London, Birmingham and Manchester
The film, which marks Noorani’s directorial debut, will premiere at the festival, considered Europe’s largest South Asian film festival.
The film’s cast, including actors Mrunal Thakur, Sai Tamhankar and Riya Sisodiya, will also be attending the festival along with Noorani, producer David Womark, writer Alkesh Vaja, sound mixer Resul Pookutty and others.
Inspired by true events, “Love Sonia” is a shocking story of a young Indian village girl whose life is tumultuously and irrevocably changed when she gets entrapped in the global sex trade while trying to save the one person she is closest to, her sister Sonia.
It also stars Freida Pinto, Anupam Kher, Adil Hussain, “Lion” actor Sunny Parwar, Demi Moore and Mark Duplass.
“We were keen to make a project for a global platform which would speak volumes about an issue which is a terrible problem faced by almost every community, and which has not been adequately addressed. This movie attempts to cast light on this issue,” Noorani said in a statement. PTI
