Mumbai: Actor Ranveer Singh will be receiving career honours at the upcoming Red Sea International Film Festival. Alongside him, actor Diane Kruger and actor-writer Abdullah Al-Sadhan will be honoured at as well as per a report on Variety. The festival will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
This year’s jury lineup was announced previously. It includes Swedish-American actor Joel Kinnaman (of Suicide Squad); Freida Pinto (of Slumdog Millionaire); Egyptian actor Amina Khalil and Spain’s Paz Vega.
This year’s edition will begin on November 30 on the Red Sea’s eastern shore. It will be open with Iraqi director Yasir Al-Yasiri’s fantasy film, HWJN on day 1 and will run till December 9.
Talking about this year’s honours, Mohammed Al-Turki who is CEO of the Red Sea Film Foundation, said in a statement, called Ranveer Singh the icon of Hindi films. The report quoted him saying, “This year we are honouring Ranveer Singh, an icon of Hindi cinema; Diane Kruger, who has delivered us a series of unforgettable characters from Helen of Troy to Tarantino’s Bridget von Hammersmark and affected us with her powerhouse performance of the avenging Angel Katja in Fatih Akin’s ‘In the Fade’; as well as the hugely beloved Abdullah Al-Sadhan who has been a mainstay of Saudi entertainment through ‘Tash ma Tash’ for two decades and will also appear in this year’s competition title ‘Norah.’ We are thrilled to be recognising each of their varied and deep contributions to cinema and to have them with us for our third edition.”
