Indian director Pan Nalin’s film, Angry Indian Goddesses, has been voted as the first runner-up at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film festival concluded in Toronto on Sunday.
Amid cheers, the TIFF creative director, Cameron Bailey announced Angry Indian Goddesses as the first runner-up for the Grolsch People’s Choice Award this year.
Of the seven girls in the film, Sandhya Mridul and Rajshri Deshpande, who were present in the audience, shouted with joy at the announcement of the award. Toronto film festival CEO Piers Handling remarked, tongue-in-cheek, that he hoped Angry Indian Goddesses would win, as the audience cheered.
“We shot the film in 40 to 45 days... mostly in Goa and some in Mumbai,” Sandhya Mirdul, who played one of the seven girls in the film, said.
We had great fun doing this film, and we are happy that the audiences at TIFF have liked our film. Hopefully, the film will go on to do well when it opens in India.
— Rajshri Deshpande, Actor, Angry Indian Goddesses
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