The week-long celebration of film, entertainment and culture came to an end here as the Jio MAMI 18th Mumbai Film Festival wrapped up with a prize distribution ceremony.

Graced by Amrita Fadnavis, wife of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the audience experienced a beautiful evening on Thursday that not only awarded deserving filmmakers but also the authors of film literature.

It was a star studded evening with many personalities from the film fraternity present including Vinod Chopra, Raju Hirani, Richa Chadda, Ayan Mukherjee, Kunal Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Kabir Khan, Vishal Bhardwaj, Sonam Kapoor, Zoya Akhtar among others.

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As lyricist Kausar Munir mentioned that film writing is a genre of literature that has not been considered as a part of mainstream literature, this time the festival opened the door for books in English, Hindi and other language to encourage more authors.

While “Naya Dur Ka Naya Cinema” by Priyadarshan got the best book award in Hindi, Mekhala Sengupta’s book “Kanan Devi, The First Superstar of Indian Cinema” won the best book in English category.

Keeping the importance of film history and literature in mind, the festival awarded film writer Anil Bhargav (Hindi) and Jay Arjun Singh (English) as Excellence in Best Writing category for their book “Bhartiya Cinemas Ki Itihaas” and “The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Filmmaker Everyone Loves”, respectively.

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Actress Sonam Kapoor said, “Being a voracious reader, I believe that a good story is a key element of many things. Our Bollywood films are changing and now we celebrate content more. Even my film Aisha was based on a book.”

“Most of my favourite films like ‘The Godfather’, ‘Gone with The Wind’ is based on books. So I support and really appreciate the initiative by Jio MAMI,” she added.

This year the festival turned out to be very special for Konkona Sen Sharma. As she made her debut this year as a filmmaker with “The Death Of Gunj”, she won the best Indian Female Director Award.

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On the other hand, “Lipstick Under My Burkha” won the Best Film on Gender Equality Award and Konkona received the award on the behalf of the team.

The much anticipated independent film /short films category turned out to be very promising this year with some brilliant pieces of cinematic work.

While “Mumbai’s Mahuva” by Santosh Amble won the Golden Gateway on Dimensions Mumbai category, “The Saleman” won the Audience Choice Award.

“Lady Of The Lake” by Haobam Paban Kumar won the Golden Gateway from India Gold category, whereas in international competition section young French filmmaker Davy Chou won the Golden Gateway for his film “Diamond Island”.

Kiran Rao, the chairperson of Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival closed the ceremony with a vote of thanks to all the sponsors and teammates declaring the date of next year’s festival to be between November 12 to 19, 2017.

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Here’s Happy Bhag Jayegi’s new song shoot with actress Diana Penty. The film’s latest addition; song ‘Gabru ready to mingle hi’ sung by Mika Singh has created quite a buzz online since its audio release. The comedy-romantic drama’s fun wedding song has the making of the ultimate ‘barati anthem’. This multi-starrer movie stars Diana Penty, Abhay Deol, Ali Fazal and Jimmy Sheirgill.

The ‘Cocktail’ girl Diana Penty makes a comeback to Bollywood after three years. ‘Happy Bhag Jayegi’ releases in theatres on 19th August.

The Movie
Happy Bhag Jayegi

Cast: Diana Penty, Abhay Deol, Jimmy Sheirgill, Ali Fazal
Directed By: Mudassar Aziz

Produced By: Krishika Lulla and Aanand L. Rai



The Song
‘Gabru ready to mingle hi…’
Singers: Mika Singh, Neeti Mohan, Tarannum Malik & Danish Sabri
Music: Sohail Sen

Lyrics: Mudassar Aziz
English Rap Lyrics: Dee MC




The Kapil Sharma Show | Happy Bhag Jayegi Launch | Abhay Deol, Diana Penty

The makers of ‘Happy Bhag Jayegi’ launched their trailer amidst the famous laugh rioters of the The Kapil Sharma Show. The funny and quirky trailer launch was attended by the movie’s entire star cast Abhay Deol, Diana Penty, Ali Fazal Piyush Mishra, Kanwaljit Singh and Momal Sheik.

The special promotional event shoot had the entire talented cast of Kapil Sharma along with Sunil Grover and Kiku Sharda in attendance. The trailer of the movie was also launched during the shoot. The film has been widely shot in Punjab and is set to be released on 19th. Happy Bhag Jayegi is produced by Aanand L Rai of Tanu Weds Manu and Ranjhana fame and is written and directed by Mudassar Aziz.