Five Indian films to premiere at Toronto festival
A still from the film Kacchey Limbu, which will have its world premiere at TIFF this month.
As the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has a large Indo-Canadian population, among the major attractions for the community this year will be the debut feature Kacchey Limbu, from director Shubham Yogi.
As the 2022 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) returns with screenings in theatres, Indian movies will make their presence felt with as many as five scheduled to have their premieres.
As the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has a large Indo-Canadian population, among the major attractions for the community this year will be the debut feature Kacchey Limbu, from director Shubham Yogi. "Whether it's about playing an old sport in a new way, challenging sexist traditions, or changing your mind about what you want to be, this is a film about embracing possibility - and playing not to win, but for the pure pleasure of the game," TIFF said about the film. This "coming-of-age sibling drama", according to the filmmakers, has a backdrop of cricket and stars actor Radhika Madan.
Another draw could be director Nandita Das' Zwigato, as it stars Indian comedian Kapil Sharma, who plays a driver for a food delivery app. A critique of the gig economy amid the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, TIFF describes the film as one with a "realist style" capturing "an everyday man who begins to see the maddening cycle of star ratings and delivery quotas for the hollow incentives they are, slowly opening up to ideas about workers' rights and solidarity".
