Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Bulletin: Rajesh and Nupur Talwar: India; Major development: World premiere of Meghna Gulzar's 'Guilty' - "a fact-based investigation into their controversial murder convictions - to be featured as a "special presentation" at Toronto's up-coming International Film Festival. (TIFF); "'Another TIFF-bound film sure to attract attention dramatizes a tragedy back in the Indian homeland that made worldwide headlines...A controversial guilty verdict sent the teen’s parents to prison, but a best-selling new book and now this film have reawakened public interest and debate." (Toronto Star);

"Another TIFF-bound film sure to attract attention dramatizes a tragedy back in the Indian homeland that made worldwide headlines. Meghna Gulzar’s Guilty, which will world premiere as a special presentation, is a fact-based investigation into the 2008 deaths of Aarushi Talwar, 14, who was a cousin of the Toronto Star’s Shree Paradkar, and 45-year-old Hemraj Banjade, a domestic worker employed by Aarushi’s family in Noida. A controversial guilty verdict sent the teen’s parents to prison, but a best-selling new book and now this film have reawakened public interest and debate." (TIFF describes 'special presentations' as "high-profile premieres and the world's leading filmmakers."
 http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2015/07/28/tiff-2015-reaches-for-the-stars.html
See TIFF web-page devoted to this film:
 http://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/specialpresentations/guilty