Love Sonia continues its winning streak with an opening night at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne on Friday night. After the success of its premiere in UK, the Melbourne screening received standing ovation as well. Director Tabrez Noorani was present with his leading ladies Mrunal Thakur, Richa Chadha and Freida Pinto. He was lauded for making a 'heart wrenching, hard hitting and disturbingly moving' film as mentioned by most audience members present for the screening.

The film which is a hard-hitting story of a 17 year-old girl, who risks her life to rescue her sister from the sex trade is shot in India, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. The film has a strong ensemble cast including Freida Pinto, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Richa Chadha, Anupam Kher, Adil Hussain, Sai Tamhankar, Sunny Parwar, Demi Moore, Mark Duplass, Noorani is introducing Mrunal Thakur as the lead character, as well as Riya Sisodiya.