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DEAR JASSI

Tarsem Singh Dhandwar
India
 - 2023
Out of competition
National premiere

In 1996 Punjab, India, Canadian-born Jassi falls in love with Mithu, a rickshaw driver beneath her social status. Their attraction is pure and unconditional, but is it strong enough to fight the dictates imposed by Jassi’s family and Punjabi society?

Tarsem Singh Dhandwar

Born in Jalandhar (India) in 1961, he studied at Bishop Cotton Boys’ High School in Shimla and moved to the United States to study Film at the Art Center College of Design in California. A legendary director of music videos and commercials, he directed the iconic music video for R.E.M.’s ‘Losing My Religion’, which won a Grammy and six MTV Video Music Awards, as well as other videos for artists such as Lady Gaga, Deep Forest, Suzanne Vega and En Vogue, as well as ad campaigns like ‘We Will Rock You’ for Pepsi, featuring Britney Spears, Pink and Beyoncé. He made his film debut with ‘The Cell’ (2000), starring Jennifer Lopez, and his filmography includes other titles such as ‘The Fall’ (2006, awarded in Berlin and best film in Sitges), ‘Immortals’ (2011), ‘Mirror, Mirror’ (2012), ‘Eternal’ (2015) or the series ‘Emerald City’, nominated for a BAFTA. ‘Dear Jassi’ (2023) had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the Platform Prize.

DIRECTOR
Tarsem Singh Dhandwar
SCREENPLAY
Amit Rai
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Brendan Galvin
EDITOR
Tarsem Singh Dhandwar
SOUND
Shahaab Alam
MUSIC
Kanwar Grewal
PRODUCTION
Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Vipul D. Shah, Ashwin Varde, Rajesh Bahl, Sanjay Grover, Tarsem Singh Dhandwar
PRODUCTION COMPANY
T-Series, Wakaoo Films, Creative Strokes
CAST
Pavia Sidhu, Yugam Sood, Kanwar Grewal, Gourav Sharma, Sukhwinder Chahal, Sunita Dhir, Baljinder Kaur, Karan Arora
RUNNING TIME
132 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in Punjabi and English subtitled in English and Spanish
COUNTRY
India
CONTACT
Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler. Feldman & Clark

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