‘Evening Shadows’ won 13 int’l awards in a single year

Evening Shadows, the Hindi feature film about a mother coming to terms with her son’s sexuality and grappling with acceptance within a conservative society, has been screened at more than 50 international film festivals across the world since its premiere in February 2018 at Mardi Gras film festival in Sydney. 

The film has won jury awards for best feature, audience awards for best feature, awards for lead actress Mona Ambegaonkar for her performance, and awards for director Sridhar Rangayan for direction and also furthering LGBTQ cinema movement in India. 

“It is beyond our imagination, that Evening Shadows has received so many awards and such a good response across the world. But more than anything, the appreciation by the audience has been astounding. The laughters and tears of the viewers are our true awards,” said Sridhar Rangayan. 

Mona Ambegaonkar, who has just returned from a 3 city screening tour in US East Coast, exults, “I have come back with a bagful of trophies and that’s a big high! The film is being appreciated so much at the screenings, and the Q&As would never end!”