proud,” says the film-maker. Tasleem bagged the ‘best director’ award at the recently held ‘Oman-Indo Short Film Festival’, organised by Oman Film Society (OFS) in association with Indian Embassy and Kalamandalam Muscat.
He has won many awards for his earlier films at several international film festivals, including those in France, Estonia, Norway and Muscat. His latest film, Ayudham Pazhagu (Train Your Weapon), fetched him the ‘best director’ award. Completely shot in Oman, it has KSG Venkatesh, son of Tamil director KS Gopalakrishnan, in the lead, along with Giridharan, Vijay Raghwani, Raja Gunasekar, Krishna, Thejas, Suresh, Shahid and Tasleem. Another sports film based on cricket as a new sport in the country was announced last year. Sources close to the production team said the film would be released soon.
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