Kapur’s film at Toronto Festival
INDIAN director Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got to Do With It? – his first fiction feature in 15 years – will premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) scheduled from September 8 to 18.
Kapur’s last fiction feature was 2007’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which also screened at TIFF.
What’s Love Got to Do With It? is a British rom-com coproduced and scripted by Jemima Khan.
It stars Lily James, Emma Thompson, Sajal Ali (who played Sridevi’s daughter in the Bollywood film Mom),
Shazad Latif and Shabana Azmi in key roles.
The Toronto International Film Festival, which bills itself as “the world’s biggest public film festival” and has launched countless Oscar winners, will welcome back A-listers to glamorous red carpets and exclusive after-parties after two heavily scaled-back editions during the pandemic.
Another Indian entry in the TIFF 2022 Gala Presentations selection is first-time director Shubham Yogi’s Kachchey Limbu, a sports film starring Radhika Madan and debutant Ayush Mehra.
TIFF is a key part of the fall festival lineup, along with Venice and Telluride, at which movies hoping to build early Oscars momentum typically hold lavish premieres.
Steven Spielberg’s eagerly awaited and deeply personal The Fabelmans will be among the hottest movie tickets during the festival.
Based on the revered director’s childhood in Arizona, exploring the family secrets of a young man with an early passion for filmmaking, the coming-of-age drama stars Michelle Williams, Paul Dano and Seth Rogen.
Toronto’s annual People’s Choice Award has become an increasingly accurate Oscars bellwether, predicting eventual best picture winners such as Nomadland, which took home the Academy Award in 2021, and “Green Book.”
Stars expected to return to the Toronto red carpets this year include Oscar winners Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne in The Good Nurse
and pop mega-star Harry Styles, who plays a closeted 1950s cop in My Policeman.
Jennifer Lawrence stars in Causeway, a drama about a solider suffering from a traumatic brain injury, while Viola Davis plays The Woman King,
and Nicolas Cage appears in