Mira Nair, a worldwide acknowledged film-maker will receive German Film Award for Peace, The Bridge 2013, for her movie "The Reluctant Fundamentalist".
According to statement, the 55-year-old will be honoured with the award on July 4 at Cuvillies Theatre, Munich for outstanding film and direction. Interestingly, the Prime Minister of Bavaria, the Bernhard Wicki Memorial Fund and the Umbrella Organization of the German Film Industry will also be the part of the gala.
In the invitation letter, Elisabeth Wicki Endriss, the founder of the Bernhard Wicki Memorial Fund, wrote that "The Reluctant Fundamentalist' is an exquisite example for a high-class extraordinary film, for her attitude as a defender of enlightenment and inviolability of human dignity, and that the realism she portrays in her films to the details attains great effects - emotions, extremely breathtaking tensions, and veracity. Thank you very much for this creative powerful and moving picture which we urgent need in a world of violence, prejudice and abuse of power beyond all morality in all our societies."
As a concluding factor, the movie is known to be releasing on May 17 in India.
This is what happens when intellectual power is applied towards right direction.
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
