"Omkara", Bollywood's take on "Othello", won the best adapted screenplay award at the Sixth Kara Film Festival here while "Khosla Ka Ghosla", about a middle class
family's run in with the land mafia, was adjudged the best original screenplay.
Indian entries attracted large audiences, but relatively minor awards.
Indian film "Asspaas 1958" won the best documentary award carrying $1,000 as prize money, reported the Daily Times.
The festival that ended Sunday witnessed a controversy over the reported denial of a visa to "Omkara" actor Saif Ali Khan. Other members of the star cast could not make it
to the festival because of prior commitments.
Pakistan's "Daani" (by Khalid Ahmed and Faaroq Rind) won for best telefilm at the closing ceremony.
The best live short film award was a tie between two films "Tricko", a Czech Republic production, and the Spanish "Avatar". "Adjustment" bagged the best animated short
film award.
The awards for best editing and best cinematography went to "Road to Guantanamo", about the treatment meted out to Al Qaida fighters and the Taliban by US soldiers in
their camp Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Screenplay awards for Omkara, Khosla Ka Ghosla at Karachi
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:50 IST
