Sarmad Khoosat baggage Greatest Director for ‘Kamli’ at DC Movie Fest | The Categorical Tribune

Because the yr 2023 attracts to an finish, it nonetheless has items in retailer for Pakistani director Sarmad Khoosat. Within the coronary heart of the American capital, Khoosat’s 2022 movie Kamli has garnered him the Greatest Director award on the DC South Asian Movie Competition. The movie fest is an acclaimed annual cultural occasion within the Washington, D.C. calendar, that includes the yr’s finest additions to international various cinema from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet and Sri Lanka.

Khoosat took to Instagram to announce his win, sharing an image of the award, additionally shared as Instagram Story by the official deal with for Khoosat Movies. Followers and celebrities flooded the feedback with congratulations and finest needs, together with actors Sarwat Gillani, Tooba Siddiqui and filmmaker Jawad Sharif. Actor Omair Rana, a part of the movie’s main forged, additionally praised Khoosat.

In November, Kamli achieved a historic milestone on the Minsk Worldwide Movie Competition, clinching three prestigious awards. Saba Qamar secured the Greatest Actor Award, Khoosat earned the Greatest Director Award and the movie obtained the Viewers’ Selection accolade on the famend Listapad competition, the most important movie competition in Belarus. Khoosat Movies and the director himself celebrated the triumph on their official Instagram accounts.

Earlier in Mississauga, Canada, veteran actor Sania Saeed who essays the function of a blind girl, Sakina, in Kamli was awarded Greatest Actress at Mosaic Worldwide South Asian Movie Competition (MISAFF). Other than Saba, Sania and Omair, the movie stars Nimra Bucha, Adeel Afzal, Iman Shahid, and marked Hamza Khawaja’s debut.

Khoosat’s 2019 movie Zindagi Tamasha was Pakistan’s official submission to the 93rd Oscars within the Greatest Worldwide Movie class and garnered international acclaim and a number of awards. Nonetheless, as a result of protests by spiritual teams, the movie confronted difficulties in reaching native audiences regardless of receiving clearance from all three censor boards, prompting Khoosat to lastly launch the movie on video internet hosting providers reminiscent of YouTube and Vimeo on August 4, 2023.

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