Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 27: Indu Shekhar, hailing from Jammu city, has won Best Writer Award for his short film ‘Anmol’ and has won ‘Best Director Award’ for ‘Herath’ at 9th ‘Indo-Bangla International Film Festival’, held recently at Kolkata.
Besides this, his film ‘Luv ka Love’ and ‘Homemaker’ won ‘Festival Special Mention Award’ and ‘Best Message Film Award at ‘Chambal International Film Festival’ that was held last week at Kota where 1007 films from 82 countries were screened.
Anmol is a story of an ambitious, hard-working dedicated guy who leaves everything behind in order to fulfill his dreams but later realizes that he left all his relations and becomes alone, whereas Luv ka Love is based on the story of two friends and their love life at different phases of life.
The artists who contributed in these projects are Rohan, Sachin, Susheel, Nisha, Shefali, Sakshi, Shefali, Purav, Amit, Shubham, Pallavi, Dharni, Eva, Rithik, Sanya, Mazy, Aatiya, Juhi, Ravinder, Aman, Anchita, Mohit, Sahil and Divyanshu.
He has made 10 independent short films till date. His portfolio profile was shortlisted for “75 Creative Minds of Tomorrow” programme, held at 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa, organised on behalf of the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Out of 1000 applications received across India, only 75 candidates got selected by jury members including eminent personalities from Bollywood such as Prasoon Joshi, Shankar Mahadevan, Ketan Mehta, Manoj Bajpayee, Resul Pookuty, etc. He has also attended workshops of cinematography organized by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Pune in 2018.
