Dhobi Ghat, directed and produced by Aamir Khan’s wife Kiran Rao, will have its world premiere at 2010 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), organisers announced here on Tuesday.
Aamir Khan, who plays the lead role of a painter in his wife’s directorial debut, and Om Puri will also be feature in galas and special presentations at the festival. Set in Mumbai, Dhobi Ghat revolves around four people who are separated by class and language but drawn together in compelling relationships.
Shai, an affluent investment banker on holiday, strikes up an unusual friendship with Munna, a young and beautiful laundry boy with ambitions of being a Bollywood actor, and also has a brief dalliance with Arun. As they come closer together, their complicated relationship no more remains a secret.
The 35th film festival, which runs from September 9 to 19, will have 15 galas and 35 special presentations in 2010. Apart from Kiran Rao, films by Robert Redford, Michael Winterbottom, Guillaume Canet, John Cameron Mitchell, Mike Mills and Andrucha Waddington will have their world premiere here.
Top filmmakers like Woody Allen, Sylvain Chomet, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Tran Anh Hung, Mike Leigh, Julian Schnabel and Im Sang-Soo will also make their North American premieres here.