Life Goes On Preview

Opening today in Britain and 25 March in India, Sangeeta Datta directed Life Goes On, with Girish Karnad, Om Puri, Sharmila Tagore and Soha Ali Khan. The film was shot in London and has a great line of young British talent to complete the cast as well. Describes Datta film told us, life goes on is an adaptation of King's freewheeling Learset in a modern Brit-Asian. It is an emotional family drama, but face the real problems facing the diaspora today. The film also deals with the history for the Indian partition and how he left a large trauma on current performance - it is really very complex. " So what is the driving force behind his decision to make this film? "After 9 / 11 and 7 / 7 of the rise of Islamophobia that I really understood what motivated me to tell this story and make this film quite as quickly as possible." Life Goes On is a drama that explores the relationship between a father devastated by grief and his three daughters. Set in London, he is now, the family of Indian origin part of the British diaspora. With the sudden death of his wife, Sanjay suddenly thrown nearby with her three daughters. The drama takes place over five days from the date Manju door-to-day of the funeral. Haunted by memories, living with this devastating loss, did not influence the mediation of his wife, Sanjay and fails to evaluate a new relationship with his three daughters. He faces a new crisis when he discovers that his youngest daughter and most beloved Dia, a Muslim boyfriend-Imtiaz. Confused and angry, Sanjay leaves home and wanders the streets of London overnight. With a series of unexpected events is Sanjay faced his demons past, the trauma of partition of India as a child, he was forced to leave his home with his parents. Finally, to reconcile with his old prejudices and unspoken on Muslims in the broader context of the country in the grip of Islamophobia in the events of 7 / 7 and the consequences of the war in Iraq resonates. As he sits soaked and exhausted on a bench in Hampstead Heath and watch the sunrise - Sanjay put his demons to rest. At the funeral, made a pact with himself, which allows the child to join the Muslim ritual of the family and see their daughters for who they are and not what it should be. It is a story of overcoming pain and injury to embrace life. This is a story of generational conflict in the layers, entering the lives of many cultures and know them better. Inspired by the life of the popular song "going on and all this people will continue to turn ...'. This is the first time, Sharmila Tagore and daughter Soha Ali Khan appears in a movie together. Soha said Steven Baker, "As far as my mother is worried, it is quite scary and makes me very nervous. It can be quite critical moments of my choice of sari, or told me to wear my hair, or say "Do not really wear those shoes?" It was obviously such a huge fashion icon and I can not compete with it. "Added that when they came in front of the camera," The dynamic mother-daughter felt very natural and nature scenes and the dialogue felt very natural. On the occasion of my mother said: "Do not wear earrings, wear them home." But apart from that, she was very reluctant. " The film is also a tribute to Tagore won the Nobel Prize for his 150 years, and includes translations of Tagore's music in Hindi Bollywood legendary poet Javed Akhtar. The soundtrack was composed by Soumik, a star in the world of British-Asian music. Datta says he wanted to do something different, "I wanted to Brit-Asian drama, which is different from the usual formulaic comedy curry. There are other stories to tell. It 'been a long road to self-Brit-Asian cinema and I am happy that we got this far. " Life Goes screened at several prestigious festivals worldwide and won the Audience Award at the Asian Film Festival London 2010 and the Award for Best Film at the 2009 Pravasi Film Festival, New Delhi 2010. Make sure that the catches in London for the next two weeks, then 25, will open in India!