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Non-MX Articles: John Shea (10/09 Achchamundu at Cairo & IFFI)

Excerpt from India Glitz 10/14/09: John Shea (Picture on The Hindu)

Achchamundu...goes to Cairo
IndiaGlitz [Wednesday, October 14, 2009]

Filmmaker Arun Vaidyanathan's ‘Achchamundu Achchamundu’ has been selected for screening at the 33rd Cairo International film festival.

Starring Prasanna, Sneha, John Shea in the lead roles, the movie already made rounds in international film festivals like Garden State film festival, Shanghai International film festival and Digital cinema film festival, Japan.

The movie is shot entirely in USA and produced by Ananth Govindan, Asma Hashmi, Ramzan Govindan, Hashmi, Srinivasan, Lakhani and Srinivasan. Arun Vaidyanathan recently received Media guild award for creating public awareness on Child sex abuse.

The filmmaker says, "A recognition in an international film festival always makes the entire team happy. I was so excited when Achchamundu played in Shanghai with Chinese subtitles and the entire Chinese audience gave a fantastic response".

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India Glitz 10/22/09: John Shea

‘Achchamundu…’, ‘Pasanga’ to be screened at IFFI
IndiaGlitz [Friday, October 23, 2009]

Sasikumar’s production venture ‘Pasanga’ and Prasanna-Sneha starrer ‘Achchamundu Achchamundu’ have made it to the Indian Panorama Section at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

Both the films will be screened at the international annual event to be held in Goa from November 23, where cinema lovers from all over the world would participate with great interest.

Expressing happiness, Prasanna says, “it was only a week ago we got the news that ‘Achchamundu…’ has been selected for screening at the 33rd Cairo International film festival. I am now doubly happy that the movie will be screened at IFFI too. All credits go to the entire team led by director Arun Vaidyanathan.”

Starring Sneha, Prasanna and Hollywood actor John Shea in pivotal roles, ‘Achhamundu…’ revolves around a paedophile targeting a girl child in a Tamil family living in the United States.

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