TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Year: 2012
Running Time: 115 min
SYNOPSIS
Set in the lower depths of Bombay's "C" grade film industry, MISS LOVELY follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sex horror films in the mid-1980s. The film gets under the skin of the Bollywood underground, an audacious cinema with wild cinemascope compositions, lurid art direction, rollicking background soundtracks, and gut-wrenching melodrama.
CREDITS
Director Ashim Ahluwalia
Writer Ashim Ahluwalia
Director of Photography Mohanan
Production Company Future East
Executive Producer Shumona Goel
Associate Producer Sanjay Shah
Associate Producer Pinaki Chatterjee
Editor Paresh Kamdar
Editor Ashim Ahluwalia
CAST
Nawazuddin SIDDIQUI as Sonu
Niharika SINGH as Pinky
Anil GEORGE as Vicky
ADDITIONAL INFO
MISS LOVELY is Ahluwalia’s first feature drama and has been selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2012.
 
Ashim Ahluwalia  | director

Ashim Ahluwalia was born in Mumbai, India. He studied film at Bard College in New York.  

His documentary, JOHN & JANE, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2005. In 2006, JOHN & JANE showed at the Berlin International Film Festival and New Directors/ New Films in New York. JOHN & JANE won the international award at the European Media Art Festival in addition to numerous other global awards. In September 2007, JOHN & JANE also won the prestigious 53rd Indian National Film Award.   Ahluwalia’s short films have screened at venues such as the Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He was commissioned to work on a film & architecture installation for the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale.  

In August 2010, Ahluwalia was named "one of the best emerging film directors working today" by Phaidon Press in "Take 100: The Future of Film.”   

MISS LOVELY is Ahluwalia’s first feature drama and has been selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2012.

Filmography
2012    MISS LOVELY
2005    JOHN & JANE
 
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PUBLICITY & REVIEWS
Variety
26-May-2012
Author: Alissa Simon
"Documaker Ashim Ahluwalia ("John & Jane") makes an impressive transition to features with "Miss Lovely," an atmospheric tragedy set in the sordid world of Bombay's exploitation-film industry during the late 1980s. There, on the wrong side of the law, labor the purveyors of cheap titillation for audiences that, in the words of one financier, "want to see naked girls, pretty and shameless." Something new in Indian filmmaking, neither Bollywood nor traditional art cinema, the pic provides provides a unique, immersive experience that will need kudos and critical support to boost international arthouse sales."
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Bollywood Hungama News Network
30-May-2012
Author: 
"After the Miss Lovely premiere in Cannes, Jonathan Romney of leading UK film magazine Sight & Sound stated, "A brief word for Miss Lovely in Un Certain Regard. This started off as a shock to the system - an Indian film like I'd never seen." On the director, Ashim Ahluwalia, Romney says, "He's a very impressive talent, and given the oppressive conventions of the Indian film industry, he's clearly an independent spirit and then some.""
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