Maharshi Tuhin Kashyap receives Secret Program Fellini Award

Guwahati: Assamese filmmaker Maharshi Tuhin Kashyap has been awarded the ‘Secret Program Fellini’ Award on the twenty seventh Lucania Movie Competition in Pisticci, Basilicata, Italy, for his movie ‘Kok Kok Kokoook’.

The Fellini Award is offered in honour of celebrated filmmaker Federico Fellini, in tribute to his extraordinary contribution to world cinema and enduring affect on generations of filmmakers, based on a launch on Monday.

Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf curated the programme and offered the movie with the Secret Program Fellini Award, making the popularity a major second in Kashyap’s rising worldwide profession, the discharge stated.

‘Kok Kok Kokoook’ is having its European premiere on the Lucania Movie Competition, following a global pageant journey that started with its world premiere on the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition. The movie subsequently travelled to festivals together with the Worldwide Movie Competition of Kerala (IFFK) and the Dhaka Worldwide Movie Competition, earlier than arriving in Italy for its European premiere at Lucania.

Made as Kashyap’s commencement movie on the Satyajit Ray Movie and Tv Institute (SRFTI), ‘Kok Kok Kokoook’ marks a exceptional journey from a movie college challenge to worldwide pageant recognition.

The Assamese movie revolves round Siken, a migrant rooster vendor who loves his RX100 motorbike very dearly, and when it will get misplaced, he suffers immensely. Lacking his pricey bike and fearing being framed in a pretend police case, he ultimately transforms into the motorbike himself.

The movie is a magic realism tackle the modern politics of Assam and India in addition to the plight of migrants.