Indian film 'All We Imagine As Light' with historic Golden Globe nods is winning hearts, acclaim around the world

Record ID: 1892509

  • Title: Indian film 'All We Imagine As Light' with historic Golden Globe nods is winning hearts, acclaim around the world
  • Date: 27th December 2024
  • Summary: MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (DECEMBER 21, 2024) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF INDIAN FILM '"ALL THAT WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT", PAYAL KAPADIA, SAYING: "I think that, for me, cinema as an experience, watching it in a cinema is always something that I have really enjoyed, and I try to make a film that is encapsulating in that way, that it is about watching in a dark room full of strangers, and that you can have a shared experience towards something with people you don't even know, but (is) still a very visceral or emotional experience. That's the way I love, I have grown up watching films. So, I wanted to, sort of do that with the film I make also, and hope that people watch it."
  • Embargoed: 10th January 2025 03:05
  • Keywords: All that we imagine as light Barack Obama Bollywood Cannes Film Festival Chhaya Kadam Director Divya Prabhu France Hridhu Haroon India Kani Kusruti Mumbai Payal Kapadia art-house cinema independent film
  • Location: MUMBAI, INDIA / INTERNET / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS / CANNES, FRANCE
  • City: MUMBAI, INDIA / INTERNET / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS / CANNES, FRANCE
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film
  • Reuters ID: LVA009931925122024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: In Bollywood-obsessed India, an art-house film about three women navigating loneliness and love in a metropolis is not only gaining unlikely viewers but also earning international recognition, including rare nominations to the Golden Globes awards.
    "All We Imagine as Light", a multi-language art house film that is set in Mumbai, the country's financial capital, is the first Indian film to be nominated in the Best Director category at the Golden Globes, the first event of Hollywood's star-studded awards season that begins next month.
    For director Payal Kapadia, the first Indian director to clinch a best director nomination, the response she has been getting in her home country to the film has been an added bonus to the accolades it has earned abroad.
    Kapadia said she was very happy with the response, especially as it's very difficult for independent films to get screened in India.
    "Now, I want to show it in cities where it has not been shown so far, like smaller cities," Kapadia told Reuters in an interview.
    Independent, art-house films like Kapadia's don't find too many takers in India, where audiences are raised on a staple diet of Bollywood and other mainstream films, complete with song-and-dance routines, violence and melodrama.
    With more than $2 million in box office sales globally, the film, which also earned a Golden Globes nod for Best Foreign Language Film, has submitted entries to the Academy Awards in several categories, said a representative from Sideshow and Janus Films, which own the distribution rights in the U.S..
    Kapadia's film, which also won the coveted Grand Prix at the Cannes film festival earlier this year, revolves around the friendship and love lives of three immigrant women who live and work in Mumbai, the congested metropolis of more than 12 million people.
    "It's a city that is very brutal... and it can just completely displace people in the blink of an eye. And it's all these contradictions about the city that I wanted to have in the film," she said in the interview.
    (Production: Sunil Vaid, Pradeep Bhatia, Tarun Kumar, Sunil Kataria)
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