Film festival: Sen not satisfied with screening

KOLKATA: Filmmaker Aparna Sen''s Mr and Mrs Iyer is making waves in the international film circuit, but the director does not seem satisfied with the screening of her award-winning film at the international film festival which began here on Sunday.
Sen, whose film has already won awards at the recently concluded Locarno and Hawaii film festivals, said the 120-minute English film had been shot keeping the international audience in mind and a slightly shorter version was supposed to be screened in India.
"The prints of the shorter version have not yet been made and we had to settle for the longer entry here," Sen, who inaugurated the festival''s film market section, said. The Indian print would be ready for a late-December release.
She said the intensity of light during the screening of the film was lower in Indian halls and could hamper the overall quality.
"The projection in foreign halls is more illuminated. I am doubtful about the quality of screening here," she said.
Mr and Mrs Iyer is a love story set in the background of riots in Gujarat, would be screened at the Busan, London and Mil valley film festival in California.
The Padmashree awardee said she had long wished to make a love story, but had not attempted one till now because she could not decide the context to place such a film. The director, who also has been in the jury of many international festivals, said she was pondering over the plot of her next venture.