Amulya became the first to win the English and Kannada writing awards
Amulya B won the writing awards in Kannada and English at the 17th annual Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) Awards held on February 7. She is the first to win both the awards.
The TFA non-profit trust was set up in 2004, in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, an art and literature lover who, at 20, died in an accident that year. It gives away prizes every year in several categories including music, literature, short film and photography.
Amulya won the writing prizes for her stories ‘What Do I Call You, Again?’ in English and ‘Aa boys club-u’ (That boys club) in Kannada. The former, a speculative fiction, is about a son visiting his mother, who is a robot. ‘Aa boys club-u’ is a magic-realism story that follows a journalist and a group of his colleagues who repeatedly come across a “strange woman”.
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2020: An unlikely year of honours for Indian Cinema
Top prizes at major international film festivals capped the journey of a pandemic-hit Indian cinema in 2020.
Ashmita Guha Neogi created history in October 2020 when her diploma film,
CatDog, won the top prize for film schools at the Cannes festival. A Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) alumnus, Neogi beat stiff competition from 16 other films, all selected in the Cannes Cinefondation film school competition out of 1,952 entries from 444 film schools from around the world.
It was the first time an Indian film school had won the Cinefondation top prize worth 15,000 euros (about Rs 13 lakh). The Cannes win of
Top 10 all-India films 2020
Here are my top 10 All India and South Asian films of 2020. Note that it has been an exceptional year because of COVID-19, with theatrical, festival, online and related film screenings of 2020 and 2021 delayed or in a flux. Despite everything, filmmakers still made films-and miracles happened.
1. THE DISCIPLE by Chaitanya Tamhane, Marathi: Was in the main competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay and the FIPRESCI Film Critics’ Award. Executive Producer Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuaron. About a devoted Hindustani classical music vocalist who finds his commitment to his art challenged in today’s times.
2. NASIR by Arun Karthick, Tamil: Was in the Rotterdam Film Festival’s Tiger Competition, where it won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film. About a gentle, hardworking Muslim, textile salesman and poet in Coimbatore, who is stabbed to death by Hindu fundamentalists.
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