Rajkummar Rao starrer Newton wins award at Berlin Film Fest
The Rajkummar Rao starrer 'Newton' has won the International Federation of Art Cinemas award in the Forum segment at Berlin Film Festival 2017. The film, which had its world premiere at the festival this year, has been directed by Amit Masurkar. It revolves around an election official whose aim is to conduct a fair election in a Naxalite area.
Rajkummar Rao and Anjali Patil-starrer political satire Newton, which had its world premiere at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (also called Berlinale), has won the International Federation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) award in its Forum segment.Rao shared the news on Twitter by congratulating the entire team of the Amit Masurkar-directed movie. "So happy to share Newton has won the Art Cinema award for the Forum section at Berlinale. Congratulations team," he wrote.So happy to share #Newton has won the Art Cinema award for the Forum section at #Berlinale. Congratulations team @ManMundra@Amit_MasurkarThe movie, which also stars Pankaj Tripathi, revolves around the story of a rookie clerk on election duty in a conflict-ridden jungle of Central India, who tries his best to conduct free and fair voting. Newton director Amit Masurkar, who rose to fame after directing the 2014 film Sulemani Keeda earlier said that he believed only Rao could have done justice to the character. Watch Amit Masurkar talk about why we should not romanticise low-budget filmmaking"I thought of Rajkummar because the character was somebody, for which I needed a person, who could pull of a huge range. Plus I needed an actor of his age. The amount of energy he could send to the role I couldn't think of anybody else." said Masurkar."Raj is extremely dedicated guy. He is with you one hundred per cent. And, I would love to work with him in more films," he added. Amit had also confirmed that the movie will release in mid-2017. Some 43 films were screened in the Forum segment at the festival, which concludes on Sunday. Actress Huma Qureshi's Hollywood debut The Viceroy's House also had its world premiere at the 2017 Berlinale. Rao tweeted his best wishes for Qureshi as well.