Urumi clinches top prize at Madrid fest

Urumi clinches top prize at Madrid fest

Beats the likes of "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara", "Memoirs in March" and other films

Sanjith Sidhardhan

There's no stopping the "Urumi" juggernaut, even a year post its commercial release. The Malayalam movie that released in Telugu with the same title has bagged the best film award at the recently concluded 11th Imagine India International Film Festival, Madrid, with director Santosh Sivan clinching the honours for the best director too. The visually beautiful movie starred a horde of South Indian actors including Prithiviraj, Genelia D'souza, Vidya Balan, Tabu, Prabhu Deva and many others.
In addition to "Urumi", the competition section had five films — Zoya Akhtar's "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara", Sanjay Nag's "Memoirs in March", Bikramjit Gupta's "Achal", Salim Ahmed's "Adaminte Makan Abu" and Rajesh Pillai's "Traffic".
On its achievement, especially in the international circuit, Santosh says, "I feel the honours are coming because it is a film that tells an interesting, historical story with a visual angle and because of that, language is not a barrier. It allows people to identify with the story easily."

Genelia and Prithviraj in a still from 'Urumi' (below) Vidya Balan in the film