<p> Festival Director S M Khan received confirmation that Pinto will be here for the India premier of Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger in which the actress plays the love interest of Josh Brolin. The film, a characteristic Allen exploration of personal relationships also stars Anthony Hopkins and Naomi Watts.<br /><br />Out of India, the beautiful 26-year-old Mangalorean has managed to keep herself constantly in the media glare. More recently, director Julian Schnabel’s decision to cast the Indian model to play a Palestinian woman in his new movie Miral has drawn some criticism. Pinto herself is unfazed by all the negative attention. She also plans to play an Arabian princess in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Black Gold.<br /><br />Preceding Pinto on the red carpet at Tuesday’s festival opening will be actors Ajay Devgun and Madhuri Dikshit.<br /><br />This year’s film festival which seems to have steered clear of Bollywood hype has an interesting line-up of world class films with a strong focus on Polish and Mexican cinema. The Polish magic realism master Jan Jakub Kolski who is being accorded an eight-film retrospective is also expected at the festival.<br /><br />The international competition section drew a record 450 entries because of the big spike in the prize money. Fifteen films from different countries have been selected for this section apart from three Indian entries. <br /><br />The international jury is being headed by Polish filmmaker Jerry Antczak. The other members are Oscar-nominated Canadian director Sturla Gunnarson who made Such a Long Journey, Australian comic Mick Molloy, French film critic Olivier Pere and actress Revathy Menon.</p>
<p> Festival Director S M Khan received confirmation that Pinto will be here for the India premier of Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger in which the actress plays the love interest of Josh Brolin. The film, a characteristic Allen exploration of personal relationships also stars Anthony Hopkins and Naomi Watts.<br /><br />Out of India, the beautiful 26-year-old Mangalorean has managed to keep herself constantly in the media glare. More recently, director Julian Schnabel’s decision to cast the Indian model to play a Palestinian woman in his new movie Miral has drawn some criticism. Pinto herself is unfazed by all the negative attention. She also plans to play an Arabian princess in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Black Gold.<br /><br />Preceding Pinto on the red carpet at Tuesday’s festival opening will be actors Ajay Devgun and Madhuri Dikshit.<br /><br />This year’s film festival which seems to have steered clear of Bollywood hype has an interesting line-up of world class films with a strong focus on Polish and Mexican cinema. The Polish magic realism master Jan Jakub Kolski who is being accorded an eight-film retrospective is also expected at the festival.<br /><br />The international competition section drew a record 450 entries because of the big spike in the prize money. Fifteen films from different countries have been selected for this section apart from three Indian entries. <br /><br />The international jury is being headed by Polish filmmaker Jerry Antczak. The other members are Oscar-nominated Canadian director Sturla Gunnarson who made Such a Long Journey, Australian comic Mick Molloy, French film critic Olivier Pere and actress Revathy Menon.</p>
