Bhindi Bazaar at Venice Film Festival

Mumbai, September, 2010: Picture Thoughts’s debut movie “Bhindi Baazaar” will be showcased at the prestigious 67th Venice Film Festival that runs from the 1st to 11th September 2010 at Venice Lido.

The Venice Film festival aims to raise awareness and promotes various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry. Bhindi Baazaar – Hindi thriller – is a realistic and gripping account of politics set in the backdrop of the underbelly of Mumbai pick-pockets in the infamous and densely populated area of Mumbai’s Bhindi Baazaar.

Directed by Ankush Bhatt, the movie star casts Kay Kay Menon, Prashant Narayanan, Piyush Mishra, Pawan Malhotra, Shilpa Shukla, Deepti Naval, Shweta Verma, Vedita, Gautam Sharma and debutant American artiste Caterina Lopez.

“ Its an honour to be a part of the prestigious Venice Film Festival this year. The type of exposure Bhindi Baazaar will amass at this platform will help create a strong buzz among the international and Indian audiences about the movie.” said Karan Arora, Producer and Chairman of Picture Thoughts. The movie is all set to release this November.