Mumbai Dec 10 (IANS) Actress Suchitra Pillai who won the Best Lead Actress honour at the Milan International Filmmaker Festival earlier this month is ecstatic about the recognition.
Suchitra couldn t make it to the festival so the American indie movie s director Saila Kariat received it on her behalf.
"I am on cloud nine I can t express it in words. I am just waiting now to have the award in my hands " Suchitra said in a statement.
The movie s plot which brings out an important message on depression follows a distraught father as he searches for answers after his college-age daughter s suicide.
"Films with such topics are to be handled with care and Saila as a director has nailed it " Suchitra added.
Kariat said: "It s only Suchitra who could do justice to the role she played and I am glad with the love and affection the film has been receiving internationally."
--IANS
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