Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyon

Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyon
Movie poster
Directed bySanjay Sharma
Written byKapil Sharma[1]
Produced byRajkumari Satyaprakash
StarringKapil Sharma
Yuvraaj Parashar
CinematographyBasheer Ali
Edited bySanjay Sharma
Music byNikhil Kamat
Production
company
Movies Masti Magic Studios
Release dates
  • 22 September 2010 (2010-09-22) (I View Festival)
  • 12 November 2010 (2010-11-12) (India)
CountryIndia
LanguagesEnglish
Hindi

Dunno Y ... Na Jaane Kyon (transl. Don't know why) is a 2010 bilingual Indian film. It was directed by Sanjay Sharma and written by Kapil Sharma, who also played the lead.[2] It premiered in April 2010 at India's first mainstream gay film festival, the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.

The film had its North American premiere at the I View Film Festival in New York City and was screened at the Sydney Film Festival, the Indian Film Festival of London (IFFL) and Filmfest homochrom in Germany.[3] Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyon was released in theatres in Austria, Italy and Switzerland in September 2010.[4]

The film received the Best Sensitive Award at the Kashish Queer International film festival 2010 and the Viewer Choice Award at the Satrang Film Festival of Sydney 2010.[5] It also won the Best Film awards at the Poland Film Festival 2014,[6] Naples Italy 2014,[7] and the Nasik International Film Festival 2014. Lead actors, Yuvraaj Parashar and Kapil Sharma won Best Actor awards at Out View Film Festival Greece 2012.[8] The film was screened at 17 international film festivals. A sequel has also been made starring Zeenat Aman, Kapil Sharma and Yuvraaj Parashar.

  1. ^ Roshni Mukherjee (12 November 2010). "People are so focussed on the script: Maradona". Times of India. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  2. ^ Jason Burke (23 April 2010). "India's answer to Brokeback Mountain ready to hit cinemas". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Dunno Y ... Na Jaane Kyun". homochrom. 7 January 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Kapil, Yuvraaj Parashar going global". Times of India. 23 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  5. ^ "Kapil, Yuvraaj Parashar going global". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Dunno Y...honoured at Poland's LGBT film fest". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Dunno Y.. bags an award at an Italian film festival". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  8. ^ "Dunno Y... actors win awards at Athens film fest". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 May 2016.