MUMBAI: Kolkata-based theatre actor Subrat Dutta  who plays the main lead in Madholal Keep Walking, has won the Best Actor award in Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt.

The main focus of Cairo International film festival 2009 was Indian cinema, bringing in light some Indian films like Gulaabi Talkies, New York, Kaminey and Madholal Keep Walking. The two Indian films to be nominated in the competition category were Kabir Khan’s New York, and Jai Tank’s Madholal Keep Walking.

Madholal is a story of humanity and has been nominated for the first film in three categories which are best film, best producer & best director in the Asian Film Festival,Singapore. The film is also nominated in the competition category in the Third Eye Asian Film Festival, Mumbai and will be screened in the coming month.

On the other hand Dutta  has earlier won the Best Actor award in the 8th Osian Cinefan Festival 2006 for the Bengali film- Bibar  and his last Bengali movie Chaturanga  has been shown in more than 50 film festivals