Bas Ek Pal at 8th Osian cinefan festival

Mumbai: The 8th edition of Osian Cinefan, Festival of Asian Cinema, in association with the government of Delhi, will be held in New Delhi from 14-23 July 2006. The festival that aims at creating awareness of the richness of Asian Cinema will also screen BAS EK PAL, in the Indian competition section. The category showcases movies made in the year 2005-2006 and not yet released or screened in any national or International film festival.

This festival aims at showcasing Asian films of high artistic quality, encouraging young filmmakers and interactions between the national and international industry and media professional. The festival also gives priority to World, International Asian and National premiers in the two competition sections: Indian and Asian Films.

Bas Ek Pal stars Sanjay Suri, Urmila Matondkar, Jimmy Shergill, Juhi Chawla and Rehaan Engineer and is due for release on August 25 2006.

Onir who has made My Brother Nikhil before says, “I am really very excited about Bas Ek Pal making it to the Indian competition. It is a very colorful film about relationships and is very different from My Brother Nikhil. The screening itself is very prestigious and if I win it’ll be an honour.”

Bas Ek Pal revolves around Sanjay Suri, Urmila Matondkar, Jimmy Shergill, Juhi Chawla and Rehaan Engineer. It defines the relationships among these intertwined characters and how one incident brings them all together. Anita Dongre has styled every character with a unique look and color code, which represents their characters in the film.