Closing Night

About the Film
Kaagaz Ki Kashti traces the life journey of a down-to-earth, small-town boy, who made it big by breaking through the norms and revolutionising the Ghazal scenario, by texturing traditional Ghazal singing with western instrumentation and making it simple and hummable, enticing new listeners into becoming Ghazal fans. Tracing three converging tracks … the struggle and stardom in his musical career, the love & loss in his personal life and the scope and limitations in the music scenario of the times.

Cast: Chitra Singh, Gulzar, Mahesh Bhatt, Subhash Ghai, Ustaad Zakir Hussain, Pankaj Udhas, Ghulam Ali, Roop Kumar Rathod, Anup Jalota, Talat Aziz, Ameesha Patel, Sunil Gavaskar, Geeta Prem, Kartar Singh, Salim Arif, Shamir Tandon, Shekhar Sen, Deepak Khazanchi, Pt Ronu Majumdar, Abhinav Upadhayay, Deepak Pandit, Kuldeep Desai, Raja Sehgal and many more …

About the Film

An old theatre projectionist is fired from his job and has to come back to his village. Struggling with what to do with his life, he one day narrates a story for a crying kid. Slowly he becomes the favorite story teller in the village and rediscovers his passion.

Awards:

– Best International Short Film- 5th Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival, 2015
– Best Short Film- 5th Pune Short Film Festival, 2015
– Best Short Film- 4th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival, 2015
– Best Director- 4th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival, 2015
– Best Screenplay- 6th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival, 2016

Cast: Piyush Mishra

Director: Abhimanyu Kanodia

Born at Ajmer, Rajasthan on 31st December, 1988. After class 12th exam, he moved to Mumbai, India to take up Chartered Accountancy course and completed it in year 2013. In 2013, he joined Mumbai based film school Whistling Woods International to study filmmaking. He graduated in July 2015 with a major in Direction.