Jury member Jan Chapman said of Bajpayee, “It was superb, such a moving performance, I was really affected by the humanity and the depth.” Fellow juror Shyam Benegal observed, “He gave such an extraordinarily fine performance, extremely well delineated with lots of little details, an extremely well crafted role." Manoj Bajpayee, who starred in Gangs of Wasseypur, won this year's APSA best actor award for Aligarh. His recent producer credits include Udta Punjab, Masaan and Shaandaar. He won APSA’s international grand jury prize for 2012’s Gangs of Wasseypur, which screened at Directors Fortnight in Cannes, and he produced the APSA jury grand prize winner The Lunchbox (2013) and best youth feature film nominee Udaan (2010). Kashyap was nominated for best director for Raman Raghav 2.0, which chronicled the life of a serial killer in present day Mumbai. India's Sunny Pawar, 8, earned a jury grand prize special mention for his nuanced portrayal of the young Saroo Brierley in Garth Davis’ Lion. Lord David Puttnam headed the international jury which evaluated 39 films from 19 countries and awarded the best feature prize to Turkey's Cold of Kalanda. “If you make films on contained budgets the financial pressure is not much,” Kashyap told me on the line from Brisbane, where he attended the 10 th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) on November 24. The writer-director-actor imposes strict financial disciplines to ensure his budgets are very economical and hence do not need to earn huge sums theatrically to break even.
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