Daijiworld Media Network - Entertainment

Mumbai, Dec 6: The Good Road, a Gujarati drama film written and directed by Gyan Correa and is India's entry in the foreign film category at the 86th Academy Awards, is to be screened at the Harvard University in Massachusetts, US. The film won the Best Gujarati film at the 60th National Film Awards. The film is to be screened on December 9 at the South Asia Institute of the university.

The movie is to be introduced to the assembled audiences by Professor Vikram Khanna of the Harvard Law School, and will conclude with the floor being open for any questions that anyone might have for Gyan Correa.

The producers of the film, the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) said that screening has been arranged for students of the university who are keen to learn more about the industry. The South Asia Institute is a  global effort to encourage scholarly exchange between students and teachers with visiting authorities on various fields, as well as having more participation in a plethora of outreach activities.

The movie itself is a complex web of several sub-plots that emerge and tell their story on a highway in Gujarat near the town of Kutch. The first Gujarati film to represent India at the Oscars, revolves around the lives of Pappu a truck driver, Aditya a small lost boy and Poonam a girl in search of her grandmother. Karan Johar said that the film was one that anyone and everyone could easily relate too and that it inspires an empathy in its audiences for the central characters. It was, he said, a completely unusual love story.