Kalki Koechlin and Deepti Naval’s Goldfish To Premiere at BIFF

Actors Deepti Naval and Kalki Koechlin‘s drama movie Goldfish will have its world premiere at the 27th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). 

According to the Times Of India, the film’s plot is about a mother and her estranged daughter. “Anamika (Koechlin), the child of a mixed marriage, returns home to her estranged mother Sadhana (Naval) because she is suffering from the onset of dementia. Ana returns to a neighbourhood she barely remembers, to a woman who sometimes doesn’t remember her,” said ToI.

Speaking about her character, Naval said, “When I first heard the story of the film in three lines, I immediately connected with the film. Something inside me said, this is for me, this is what I have been waiting for. Maybe because I saw my mother go through Alzheimer’s and dementia.” She added, “ I am really excited about the selection of the film at BIFF and I am sure the audiences will take the story of Sadhana and Anamika with them in their hearts.” 

Koechlin also said she was delighted that the film would premiere at BIFF. “I am both excited and humbled that Goldfish will premiere at Busan, a festival that has highlighted so many iconic films and hosted amazing talent through the last quarter of a century,” she said. “The film’s cast included Indians from all over the world and all these actors had their own accents, which is something we’ve never seen in a film — the diversity of Indian accents and therefore of the people of India.”

Directed by Pushan Kripalani, Goldfish also features actors Rajit Kapur, Gordon Warnecke and Bharti Patel.