Manoj Bajpayee wins the Best Actor Award at the New York Indian Film Festival

Manoj Bajpayee’s Festival favourite, Hindi psychological drama, Gali Guleiyan (In the Shadows) has added another feather to its cap! Manoj’s stellar performance has won him the Best Actor Award at the recently concluded New York Indian Film Festival.

Acknowledging all the praise and good wishes coming to him, Manoj took to twitter and said: “गली गुलीयां gets an honour at @nyindianff congratulations to the team of@GaliGuleiyan and the captain @dipeshjainfilm ”

गली गुलीयां gets an honour at @nyindianff congratulations to the team of @GaliGuleiyan and the captain @dipeshjainfilm https://t.co/RGP8cHR4Rc

— manoj bajpayee (@BajpayeeManoj) May 13, 2018

The Film’s debutant director Dipesh Jain said, “We are elated to hear about Manoj sir’s award at the NY Indian Film Festival. It is an acknowledgement of his stellar performance in the film. We consider ourselves very blessed to have worked with an actor like him who embraces his character so seamlessly and makes it his own. Heartiest congratulations to him once again!”

It is not often that a film can boast of a simultaneous premiere at three prestigious International Film Festivals – Busan International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival & Mumbai’s MAMI and, go on to win the Grand Jury award at the latter. Yet, Gali Guleiyan did just that last year!

The film has travelled to more than 15 top International Film Festivals and won audience accolades and awards along the way. These include recent screenings at the prestigious 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angles, Atlanta Film Festival and the New York Indian Film Festival.

All this perhaps serves as the perfect launch pad for the film to release theatrically in India and worldwide soon.