Malayalam film "Bhayanakam" wins best cinematography award at Beijing International Film Festival
Beijing, Apr 20: Malayalam film "Bhayanakam" (Fear) directed by Jayaraj won the best cinematography award at the Beijing International Film Festival on Saturday.
The cinematography was done by Nikihil S Praveen.
The film had also won the best cinematography award at the 65th National Film Awards.
Both Jayaraj and lead actor, writer and journalist Renji Panicker who attended the festival received the award.
The film portrays the visits of first World War veteran to a small village in the backwaters of Kerala's Kuttanand as a postman during the World War-II. He shares with the families the good and bad news of the soldiers who took part in the war.
According to Jayaraj, about 600 soldiers from Kerala died during the World War-II.
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan-starrer "Zero" was screened at the end of the festival.
Shah Rukh, who made his maiden visit to China on April 17, took part in the festival, specially in the "China-India Film Cooperation Dialogue" along with film director Kabir Khan.
The festival also screened five Indian films, including Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali", "Apur Sansar", "Aparajito", the romantic comedy "Love Per Square Foot", the 2018 Indian romantic comedy and the thriller "Ittefaq".
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Four dead in highway pile-up in Karnataka
Ballari (Karnataka) (PTI): At least four people are feared dead and some others were injured in a pile-up involving a bus, a garlic-laden lorry, a car and multiple two-wheelers near Danapur in Hospet taluk of Vijayanagara district on National Highway 50 on Saturday morning, police said.
According to police sources, the accident began as a minor collision but escalated when the speeding lorry rammed into a bike and subsequently crashed into a bus and a car before overturning.
The lorry fell onto the car and dragged it for nearly 100 metres after the impact, police said.
Preliminary inquiry suggests the driver was transporting garlic towards Chitradurga and was driving at high speed, leading to loss of control and a chain collision.
“The four occupants of the car are feared to have died on the spot after the lorry toppled onto the vehicle,” police sources said, adding that some people sustained injuries, some of them serious.
Rescue operations were underway to clear the overturned vehicle and retrieve those trapped.
The injured have been shifted to government hospitals in Hospet and Koppal for treatment, they added.
Vehicular movement on National Highway 50 was severely affected, with traffic piling up for several kilometres as locals gathered at the accident site and emergency teams intensified relief efforts.
