Toronto Film Festival: Irrfan's Talvar and Radhika's Parched make the cut

The Toronto International Film Festival aka TIFF has unveiled its star-studded line-up and there are two Indian films which have made the cut. Talvar and Parched will represent India in the Special Presentations section. The former, based on the infamous and mystifying Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj murder case in 2008 which divided the nation, is directed by Meghna Gulzar (Filhaal), written and scored by Vishal Bhardwaj and stars Konkana Sen Sharma, Irrfan and Ship of Theseus actors Neeraj Kabi and Sohum Shah. The English working title for the movie is Guilty.

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Meanwhile Parched, which is an India/US production, is directed by Leena Yadav, who is best known to Indian audiences for her movies Shabd and Teen Patti. Her latest is a female-driven rural drama which stars Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla, Sayani Gupta and Adil Hussein and focuses on issues such as misogyny and sexual repression of women.

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The Indian presence doesn't end here. Randeep Hooda-starrer crime drama Beeba Boys, directed by Indian-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, will premiere in the Gala section. The film is inspired by the bullet-ridden adventures of the menacing Indo-Canadian Sikh mobster Bindy Johal and his gang who wreaked havoc in Vancouver. Hooda is the leading man, Jeet Johar, who leads a team a fearless and ruthless young men. Watch the film's trailer:

There's also The Man Who Knew Infinity, the biopic on the famed Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan,. Starring Patel as Ramanujan and Jeremy Irons, the UK production follows the life of Ramanujan beginning in India to his subsequent work and rise in UK.