‘Lakadbaggha’ to premiere at 20th Indisches Film Festival Stuttgart, 2023!

The only action film to make the cut at the 20th Stuttgart Film Festival, Germany is part-1 of the world’ s first Animal Lover Vigilante universe “Lakadbaggha-1”. The festival will also showcase the Oscar Nominated Indian documentary “All That Breathes” by Shaunak Sen amongst many other gems.

Lakadbaggha (Hyena) – an action film set in Kolkata is about protecting indie dogs and animals at large – starring Anshuman Jha, Ridhi Dogra and Milind Soman – it made a lot of noise earlier this year with its theatrical release after opening at the Kolkata International Film Festival in December last year and winning the Best Actor Award for Jha at the HBO South Asian Film Festival in New York. The action of the film has been unanimously lauded for its authenticity and for the believable hand to hand combat sequences. Jha trained in Krav-Maga with Tsahi Shemesh (who has previously trained the Avengers cast) in New York and the film had action by the cult action master of ‘Ong-Bak’ Kecha Kamphakdee. The sequel of the film is being written by Sourav Ghosh and will be going on the floors at the end of this year.

A leading OTT platform (Zee5) will be soon doing its Digital Premiere and the announcement video with Jha was shared by the platform and Anshuman on World Environment Day on June 5th on their Social Media Handles.

Anshuman and Ridhi are scheduled to travel to Germany for the festival and Jha said “We are excited and grateful that our love letter to dogs is breaking the language barrier and will reach an audience in Germany. Animal trafficking and cruelty is a grave environmental issue and I am happy that the festival is giving a voice to the voiceless. This is a shot in the arm as we prep for a bigger Part-2. We are Thankful to the selection committee at Stuttgart and stoked to be there for our European Premiere.”

Keerti Kadam.