The late Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer the bypass will be screened at the Bandra Film Festival under the theme of Hidden Gems and will be released on August 30, 2022. Written and directed by Amit Kumar, the bypass is a 2003 short silent Bollywood film that was shot on a stranded road in Rajasthan. Without dialogues, this short film contains only a few spectacular and raw performances by actors.
Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer The Bypass screens at Bandra Film Festival
The film was previously screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Aubagne Film Festival. The Bypass is about two friends played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sundar Dan who often raid and eventually kill the people traveling along the nearby road, and Irrfan Khan played the role of a corrupt police officer.
Speaking about the screening, Director Amit Kumar said: “In my first movie the bypass, I had the honor of bringing together two great actors – Irrfan Khan and Nawaz. It was one of those moments when everything came together perfectly: the fantastic cast, the amazing crew and the evocative locations. My film is also a tribute to the silent era, where acting, strong script and visual storytelling were the main tools of filmmaking. Not only did this allow me to work with my uncle and early inspiration, Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha, AKA Baba, it was also an exciting first step in my creative collaboration with my friend from our film school days – the Oscar-winning Asif Kapadia. Who would have thought that almost 20 years later we would still love to work together! With so many happy memories attached to it, it’s great to see the movie get another movie after so many years. Bandra Film Festival does a fantastic job presenting interesting films that may not have been known in the mainstream.”
British filmmaker & producer of the bypass Asif Kapadia shared, “the bypass was a key moment in my journey as a filmmaker, it’s been a long time but it still feels so alive, the crazy experience way off the beaten track in the scorching hot desert. Was it a dream? Or a nightmare? For a film to bring together the late great, dearly loved and missed Irrfan and the fantastic Nawaz at the beginning of his incredible career. My good friend Amit (bhai) Kumar writes and directs, which I think is his best film because it was made without compromise. It was a family affair with Rajeev Ravi as cameraman, Oscar winner Dario Marianelli as composer. BAFTA winner Andy Shelley edits and creates the sound design. What a cast and crew!! I think the only real way to rate a movie, any movie, is to see if it stands the test of time, and the bypass does, with flying colors. It’s still as brilliant, tough, shocking and raw as the day it was completed. It’s pure cinema, it’s perfect and like all great cinema it deserves to be seen by a wide audience.”
The film festival with Abhay Deol and Assem Chhabra on the advisory board kicked off in February 2021, with nearly 100 films from filmmakers from across the country crossing genres, languages and formats and it is currently in its second year.
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