Movie on Kejriwal’s rise to premiere at Toronto festival
TORONTO : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is known to be a cinephile. Now, a documentary based on his insurgent campaign to come to power in the city in 2013 will have a showcase he may appreciate – the Toronto International Film Festival.
TIFF, one of the world’s most celebrated film events, announced that An Insignificant Man, directed by Mumbaibased Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, has been added to the lineup for the September festival. The movie also chronicles the formation of Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, which emerged from an anti-corruption drive against the previous Congressled government.
AAP’s Canadian supporters are excited about the premiere of a film on the party’s genesis on such a significant stage.
While they are still attempting to formulate a schedule for Kejriwal to travel to Canada ahead of the assembly elections in Punjab next year, there’s no word yet on whether that particular film buff will be seen on the red carpet at TIFF.
“With unprecedented access, this film follows Kejriwal as he tries to overcome his own shortcomings to convince the people of New Delhi that he is the honest politician they need,” TIFF said in a statement.
The filmmakers described it as a “non-fiction political drama chronicling the spectacular rise of Arvind Kejriwal from an activist to a controversial vigilante-politician”.
They said they were neither looking to make heroes out of them for being protestors nor wanting to vilify them for being politicians.