Madhur Bhandarkar to represent India at the upcoming BRICS Film Festival

The upcoming BRICS Film Festival, which will be held in China this June, will have five filmmakers from India, China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa come together to make five, 18-minute shorts on the theme, 'Where has the time gone', which will be screened as an anthology. The five-day festival is organised to offer a platform to members of film industries from the above countries to explore areas of co-operation in cinema, culture and cuisine, reports Mumbai Mirror.

And so, Madhur Bhandarkar will represent India, alongside globally renowned filmmakers like Brazilian Walter Salles of The Motorcycle Diaries fame, Chinese director-screenwriter Jia Zhangke, Russian storyteller Aleksey Fedorchenko and South African filmmaker Jahmil XT Qubeka.

Madhur who should finalise the script by next week reveals that it is a human interest story and told the tabloid, "I am excited about being a part of a project with senior filmmakers whose work I have revered. It's a challenging theme."

He added that after the premiere on June 21, the film will have a theatrical release in China in September, followed by other countries. "I will make sure that I keep a show in India too," said Bhandarkar.