Love Sonia gets rave reviews at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne

Love Sonia continues its winning streak with an opening night at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne last night.

Tabrez Noorani, Mrunal Thakur, Freida Pinto, Richa Chadda

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 and was lauded for making a ‘heart wrenching, hard hitting and disturbingly moving’ film as mentioned by most audience members present for the screening.

Mrunal Thakur

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.

Freida Pinto, Mrunal Thakur, Tabrez Noorani, Richa Chadda

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.

Mrunal Thakur, Freida Pinto, Richa Chadda

Director Tabrez Noorani says, "It’s exciting and such a privilege to bring Love Sonia to the Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne. We hope the movie resonates with audiences here as it has in London and I look forward to being able to interact with the audience here on the opening night."

Mrunal Thakur, Richa Chadda, Tabrez Noorani, Freida Pinto

Producer David Womark shares, "Both Tabrez and I are proud to have Love Sonia opening the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. Ang Lee has said that when there is a strong woman character in a story--it always grabs him. We are very fortunate in Love Sonia to tell the powerful story of a strong woman’s journey.”

Mrunal Thakur, Richa Chadda, Freida Pinto

Co-Producer Amar Butala said, "After a standing ovation in London, I am extremely happy that Love Sonia has opened another prestigious festival and has again been loved by the audience. We are now gearing up after London and Melbourne to bring the film back home, to India.”

Freida Pinto

After watching Love Sonia at IFFM 2018 last night filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani expressed, “The most disturbing film I have ever seen in life and I am saying it in a good way. It requires tremendous courage and empathy to do this, Big salute to the entire team of Love Sonia.”

Freida Pinto, Richa Chadda, Mrunal Thakur, Tabrez Noorani

After watching Love Sonia Actor Vicky Kaushal shared, “Stunned and shocked and so moved after watching Love Sonia. Its one of those rare movie experiences where you don’t wish to break the illusion that it was a film you were watching after you are done with it. Every moment, every performance is as real as it can get. Kudos to Tabrez for his brilliant research and direction and to each and every actor in the film.

Love Sonia is scheduled to release in India in September.

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