Ameer's Yogi has been invited to the Dubai Film Festival...  share

Posted on: 2009-11-28 01:11:48

Ameer, with just one Paruthiveeran has become a brand in international film circuit. His latest Yogi has been invited to the Dubai Film Festival and will also be screened at Berlin and Durban festivals.

Ameer met the media and waxed eloquent on how his new film directed by Subramaniam Shiva is being given the red carpet at international festivals. Ameer and Subramaniam Shiva will be in Dubai on December 9, when Yogi will be screened there at the festival.

The ace director who is turning actor with Yogi confesses: “We had no plans to sent Yogi, which has far too many commercial elements like long drawn out fight scenes. But Suhasini Maniratnam coordinated it along with Meenakshi Shedde, journalist and film festival consultant and curator and Dorothee Wenner, programme consultant for the Berlin and Dubai international film festivals. They saw a pilot version of the film and insisted on sending it to the festivals with fight scenes trimmed and songs uncut.”

Ameer says that the film will not have a simultaneous release with the rest of the world as it is one of the clauses for international festivals, that the film should only have been released in the domestic market.

Meanwhile the buzz on Yogi is so good that the film is releasing in 225 screens across Tamil Nadu, the biggest ever release for a film with a new hero!