In her speech, Sutapa said that the festival had offered her “closure”. “It was a very brave decision to step out of home and attend the festival. One needs closure to walk ahead and IFFI is a closure for me, it is like being there for what we have done 30 years ago as students. It feels nice to be here together to celebrate the person and IFFI couldn’t have chosen a better film because this film talks about a race and reaching the finishing line. Irrfan’s finish line came too soon, but we are proud of him,” she said.
In another post Babil said he was grateful to be able to watch his late father on the big screen once more. He wrote, “Today, I need to share this as @iffigoa made it possible to watch and hear him on the big screen one more time, that to in Paan Singh Tomar. (This man exuded a younger energy than me in his late 40s even.)
Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, Paan Singh Tomar is a biopic of the former gold medal-winning athlete turned dacoit. Irrfan Khan, who played the…
