The 12th annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), presented by the city-based not-for-profit arts organization Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC), will run from May 23 through 27 in lower Manhattan&#39;s Tribeca theatre, considered the home for independent films. <img alt="Madhur-Bhandarkar" src="/imagedata/2012/may/Madhur-Bhandarkar.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 471px; " /> Madhur Bhandarkar with Kareena Kapoor at an event The festival&#39;s schedule includes an impressive line up of internationally acclaimed and celebrated films like director Tigmanshu Dhulia&#39;s Nana Patekar-starrer &#39;Shagird&#39;, &#39;Dekh Indian Circus&#39; which won the Audience Choice Award at the 16th Busan International Film Festival 2011, Rajan Khosa&#39;s &#39;Gattu&#39;, Ashvin Kumar&#39;s &#39;Inshallah Football&#39;, a documentary set in Kashmir and winner of the 2011 National Award. Also on the festival&#39;s schedule is &#39;Azhagarsamy&#39;s Horse,&#39; winner of the 2011 National Awards for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and Best Supporting Actor. &quot;To commemorate the 100th year of Indian cinema, our 2012 line-up celebrates all that NYIFF finds inspiring about great films depth, character study, ingenious plots, and riveting messages,&quot; IACC Executive Director Aroon Shivdasani said. &quot; These movies have already won National Awards in India, at Cannes, Sundance and the Berlin Film Festivals. We are proud to share our entire schedule with New York cinephiles,&quot; Shivdasani added. Celebrities expected to attend the festival include Kapoor and Bhandarkar, director Mira Nair and model and television host Padma Lakshmi. Ghosh&#39;s &#39;Chitrangada&#39; will have its world premiere at the festival. The National Award winning director faces the camera again in the role of a choreographer who plans to stage the dance drama Chitrangada on the occasion of Rabindranath&#39;s 150th birth anniversary. The festival will also pay a special tribute to the legendary Dev Anand and showcase the colorized version of his cult hit &#39;Hum Dono.&#39; Director Shyam Benegal will also be honoured with a retrospective of his movies - &#39;Zubeida&#39;, &#39;Mammo&#39; and &#39;Sardari Begum&#39;. Kashyap&#39;s &#39;Gangs of Wasseypur&#39;, the Manoj Bajpai-starrer movie going to the Cannes festival this year, would be the closing night film while Bedabrata Pain&#39;s directorial debut &#39;Chittagong&#39; will open the festival. Set in the turbulence of the 1930s British India, &#39;Chittagong&#39; is the true story of a 14-year-old boy and of his journey to find where he belongs. An inductee to the US Space Technology Hall of Fame, Pain gave up his career as a NASA scientist in 2008 to pursue his passion of filmmaking. Pain was the executive producer of the 2005 national award-winning film &#39;Amu&#39; and author of &#39;Behind the events in Kashmir&#39;. Regional language films in Tamil, Bengali, and Marathi will also be showcased, notable among them being the Tamil film &#39;3&#39; directed by Rajnikanth&#39;s daughter Aishwarya Rajinikanth Dhanush and featuring Dhanush and Shruti Haasan. Other highlights of the festival include Obaid Chinoy&#39;s Oscar-winning documentary &#39;Saving face&#39;, &#39;Transgenders: Pakistan&#39;s Open Secret&#39; and award-winning films from South Africa, Australia and Sri Lanka. NYIFF is the longest-running showcase of Indian films in the US. It was born in the aftermath of 9/11 in response to then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani&#39;s call to New Yorkers to help rebuild a limping city. u00a0

Kareena Kapoor and Madhur Bhandarkar are expected to attend the upcoming New York Indian Film Festival, which will showcase over 40 award-winning films by directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Anurag Kashyap and Pakistan's Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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