{"id":15389,"date":"2021-06-09T08:44:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T08:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/?p=15389"},"modified":"2021-06-09T08:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T08:44:19","slug":"akriti-singhs-directorial-debut-wins-best-film-award-at-the-uk-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/09\/akriti-singhs-directorial-debut-wins-best-film-award-at-the-uk-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Akriti Singh\u2019s directorial debut wins\u00a0 Best Film award at the UK Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Broken But Beautiful, Kamyaab, Breathe and Photograph actress Akriti Singh turned director with a Hindi feature film, Toofan Mail. Be it the unique storyline of the project, or the fact that it\u2019s an independent movie made by crowdfunding \u2014 Toofan Mail has been making headlines since its inception. And now, it has started garnering international appeal, too. The film has won the best film (youth choice) award at the coveted UK Film Festival.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15390 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-12.15.28-AM-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-12.15.28-AM-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-12.15.28-AM-682x1024.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-12.15.28-AM-768x1154.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-12.15.28-AM.jpeg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about achieving this feat, Akriti says, \u201cThis film is a result of team effort and making it was a really challenging journey. But I was always sure about the impact this film would have. I\u2019m proud and overwhelmed that Toofan Mail has won an award at the UK Film Festival.\u00a0 The most fascinating thing about this award is that people aged below 25 were on the judging panel. The film is based in the 70s and the fact that it connected with the youngsters of today makes me feel accomplished as a writer and director.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15391 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-12.15.30-AM-289x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-12.15.30-AM-289x300.jpeg 289w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-12.15.30-AM-768x796.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-12.15.30-AM.jpeg 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The independent film is based on a true incident from 1970s, where a woman arrived at the New Delhi railway station, claiming to be the Queen of Awadh, seeking to meet Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken But Beautiful, Kamyaab, Breathe and Photograph actress Akriti Singh turned director with a Hindi feature film, Toofan Mail. Be it the unique storyline of the project, or the fact that it\u2019s an independent movie made by crowdfunding \u2014 Toofan Mail has been making headlines since its inception. And now, it has started garnering international &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15392,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions\/15392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}