Urumi bags best film award at Madrid fest

Urumi bags best film award at Madrid fest

Santosh Sivan

MUMBAI: The 11th edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival, Madrid has awarded Urumi with the Best Film award. About 70 films were screened in 12 sections at the festival across four venues in the city.

The competitive section comprised six films - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara by Zoya Akhtar, Urumi by Santosh Sivan, Memoirs in March by Sanjay Nag, Achal (The Stagnant) by Bikramjit Gupta, Adaminte Makan Abu by Salim Ahamed and Traffic by Rajesh Pillai.

While Santosh Sivan won the best director award for Urumi, Deepti Naval was named best actress for Memories in March and Salim Kumar won the best actor award for Adaminte Makan Abu.

The award for best music went to Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy for their score in Zindagi Naa Milegi Dobara.

The 11th edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival was held in Madrid from May 17-31.