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 The Blue Tower - the first feature by award-winning Indian British writer/director Smita
Bhide, set in Southall, West London's colourful and bustling Indian
community - picked up the best British Film at Raindance 2008 , which came to a close as the 52nd London Film Festival kicked off with the world premiere of Frost/Nixon.
Mohan dreams of escape: from his unhappy marriage, his
overbearing family, his unexciting prospects. He finds it by falling
into an affair with the pretty young nurse looking after his
cantankerous bed-ridden Auntie Kamla. At first the relationships feels
like the answer to his prayers, but there are secrets to come out and
before long he's on a road to disaster, his every step dogged by the
looming menace of the Blue Tower waiting for him round every corner.
Featuring a cast of Asian actors and shot on HD, The Blue Tower plays like something by James M. Cain with touches of Great Expectations
thrown in. It's not a 'corner-shop comedy' or a Bollywood pastiche but
something new in British-Asian cinema, a full-blooded story of illicit
passion and desperate hope which presents a unique and cinematic
portrait of multicultural Britain.
Among the stars at festival were
Faye Dunaway, the Arctic Monkeys, Martin Freeman, Adam Yauch, Bill
Nighy, Sir George Martin and Giles Martin, Alfonso Cuaron and Jonas
Cuaron, Corey Feldman and Les Claypool.
Best UK Feature: The Blue Tower
Best UK Short (sponsored by Delta Airlines): Red Sands
Best International Feature: Estomago
Best International Short: A Juicy Turkey
Best Debut Feature: Production Office
Best Documentary: Indestructible
Film of the Festival (short): Red Sands
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