Miss Lovely

National award-winner Ashim Ahluwalia’s sleazy-horror flick is a story set in the mid-eighties, about two brothers who make C-grade films in Mumbai. It will be screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival. The film stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui, again, in the lead alongside former Miss India Niharika Singh and Anil George. Ahluwalia took five years to make this film as he couldn’t source adequate funding. A filmmaking graduate from Bard College, New York, 40-year-old Ahluwalia’s first film John & jane was released in 2005.