Mumbai: Ashwani Sharma’s Nobel Chor has been selected for screening in the 55th BFI London Film Festival 2011 from 12 – 27 October. It will be shown in the World section and  have two screenings. It will be presented as the European Premiere of the film.

Mithun Chakraborty plays the lead of Bhanu, who finds the Nobel Medal of Rabindranath Tagore, which was stolen from Shantiniketan in 2004. What happens to the medal and Bhanu in a twisting turn of events forms the entire story of Nobel Chor.  Soumitra Chatterjee  stars in the role of Mastermoshai in the film.  Harsh Chhaya and Rupa Ganguly also star in the film.

The film will first have its World Premiere at the 16th Busan International Film Festival where it will be shown in the Section A Window on Asian Cinema and will have three screenings from 06-14 October,  2011.