Filmmaker Hansel Mehta's Shahid will open the first Dharamshala International Film Festival that is due to go underway on 1 November. Ashim Ahluwalia's award-winning film <em>Miss Lovely</em> will be the closing film of the festival that will feature other 26 feature films, documentaries and short films. The four-day festival, the first being organised in Dharamshala by Ritu Sarin and Tenzin Sonam, promises to showcase the best of recent Indian and world cinema, both in fiction and documentary.

The curtains to the 14th Mumbai Film Festival was wrung down with the presentation of awards at a glittering ceremony organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI). In the newly introduced competition section for Indian feature films ‘India Gold’, director Ashim Ahluwalia's Miss Lovely was adjudged as the best film. The film also won the Reliance Media Works’ CreaTech (Creativity & Technology) award.

Dehradun-born Niharika Singh is on cloud nine after she recently attended the Cannes Film Festival along with director Ashim Ahluwalia for the screening of his film <em>Miss Lovely</em>. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival. <em>Miss Lovely</em> follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s.