Day 2

India was all over the place at the Toronto festival last year. This was because the festival in its annual City to City programme chose Mumbai as the film industry it would highlight. India has fewer films this year but the selection is the strongest so far to impact Toronto’s international scene. The films, incisive and varied in content, demonstrate that avant-garde Indian cinema is now becoming a viable entity internationally, with finance coming from leading production/distribution houses of the West.