Actor Prabhas’ 2024 release Kalki 2898 AD, which is set in the post-apocalyptic world, will be premiered at 29th Busan Film Festival, confirms a source. The prestigious film event will be held from October 2- 11 in Busan, South Korea.
The Nag Ashwin directorial will be screened at Busan Cinema Centre BIFF Theatre on October 8, and LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 5 on October 9. It also stars Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan and Kamal Haasan in the lead roles.
The film was also considered as India’s official entry to Oscars 2025. However, The Film Federation of India unanimously voted for Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies, pushing it a step forward in the Oscar race.
Kalki 2898 was made on a whopping budget of 600 crores and performed decently well at the box office. It was later released on OTT platform Netflix, where it found its audience from across the globe.
Apart from Kalki 2898 AD, Indian filmmaker Nidhi Saxena’s ‘Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman’ will also screen under ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ section. Marking Nidhi’s directorial debut, this film explores the complex journey of a middle-aged woman and her elderly mother as they confront entrenched trauma and unfulfilled aspirations.
The film festival will kickstart with the premier of ‘Uprising’, a Kim Sang-man’s directorial, featuring Gang Dong-won, Cheon-young and Cha Seung-won. It will end with Singaporean director Eric Khoo’s ‘Spirit World’, starring French screen legend Catherine Deneuve.
Highlight of this year’s festival will be the films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi. Kurosawa is a Japanese writer-director and recipient of Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award. He is popularly known for his work in psychological horror genre. Some of his most notable works include ‘Cure’ (1997). Busan Festival will screen two of his recent films Serpent’s path and Cloud, which also graced the prestigious Venice Film Festival.
