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Actress Radhika Madan, whose debut film “Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota“, won a top award at the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) that concluded here on Sunday, said it was a surreal moment and couldn’t have asked for more.
The film, which was India’s first-ever entry into the festival’s “Midnight Madness” segment, won the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award.
“I don’t know what to say. It is so surreal… First to get selected for the festival and then to win the award for the best film… I just couldn’t think, to be honest,” the 23-year-old actress told IANS at the festival’s after party.
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“I am going to celebrate the award with some wine and cheese and heading back to India to celebrate it,” said the Delhi-born actress whose another film “Pataakha” is set to release later this month.
Radhika said her family and friends in India have already begun celebrating her success.
“I just got the opportunity to call two or three people and they are dancing over there. They are saying, ‘wow! How it happened?’ It has not yet sunk in because we were always the underdog.”