Evening Shadows

My first film as a producer – Evening Shadows – is a journey of a gay son’s mother, the only person who can transform even the setting sun into a rising one… as much as it draws from my own life, it is more of a hope for the future.

Synopsis

Under the Evening Shadows, truth often plays hide and seek. Set in South India and Mumbai, Evening Shadows is a tender heartwarming story about a mother-son bond that has to withstand the ravages of time, distance and truths.

Trailer

Music Video

Release

Cast & Crew

  • Cast: Mona Ambegaonkar, Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, Devansh Doshi, Arpit Chaudhary, Yamini Singh
  • Screenplay & Direction: Sridhar Rangayan
  • Creative Director, Dialogues & Lyrics: Saagar Gupta
  • Producers: Sridhar Rangayan, Saagar Gupta, Mohammed Shaik Hussain Ali, Karim Ladak

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Awards

  1. Best LGBTQ Feature Film at Yatha Gatha International Film & Literature Festival
  2. Best Fiction Feature award at Changing Face International Film Festival
  3. Best Longer Film award at UK Monthly Film Fest
  4. Best Director award for Sridhar Rangayan at Asian Cinematography Awards
  5. Best Cinematography of a Feature Film award for Subhransu Das at Asian Cinematography Awards
  6. Best Costume Design award for Bipin Tanna at Asian Cinematography Awards
  7. Apnee Community Best Cinematographer award for Subhransu Das at New Jersey Indian and International Film Festival (NJIIFF)
  8. Best International Feature Film audience award at SERILE FILMULUI GAY International Film Festival
  9. Zinegoak 2019 Honorary Award for Sridhar Rangayan at Zinegoak 2019
  10. Best Supporting Actress for Mona Ambegaonkar at Rainbow Umbrella Film Festival
  11. Best Foreign Feature film at Rainbow Umbrella Film Festival
  12. Special Mention for Best Actor for Mona Ambegaonkar at OMovies Film Festival
  13. Vincenzo Ruggiero Award for Best Director at OMovies Film Festival
  14. Best LGBTQ Film award at Lifft India Filmotsav
  15. Audience Choice Best Film award at Caleidoscope Indian Film Festival Boston
  16. The Hope Award at Caleidoscope Indian Film Festival Boston
  17. Best Feature Film audience award at OutReels Cincinnati
  18. Interfaith Discernment Award for portraying universal spiritual themes of self-discovery and social advancement at the Kansas International Film Festival
  19. Best Performance in a Supporting Role jury award for Mona Ambegaonkar at OUT at the Movies
  20. Best International Feature Film audience award at Out On Film: Atlanta’s LGBT Film Festival
  21. Best Feature Film audience award at Chicago South Asian Film Festival
  22. Best Men’s Feature jury award at North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  23. Celebration of Courage award at OUT HERE NOW: Kansas City LGBT Film Festival
  24. Free To Be Me award at Roze Filmdagen, Amsterdam
  25. Best Actress Award at Queer Film Festival Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

Accolades

  • Opening Film – ‘Queer’ Asia Film Festival
  • Opening Film – Out & Loud – Pune International Queer Film Festival
  • Opening Film – Queer Voices, Moldova
  • Opening Film – Queer-Streifen, Regensburg
  • Opening Film – Montego Bay Pride Film Festival, Jamaica
  • Opening Film – Lonavala International Film Festival
  • Closing Film – Reincarnate II
  • Closing Film – Advait Pune Queer Film Festival
  • Closing Film – &PROUD | Yangon LGBT Film Festival
  • Closing Film – Lifft India Filmotsav
  • Closing Film – OUT at the Movies
  • Closing Film – North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  • Closing Film – KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
  • Centerpiece Film – qFLIX Philadelphia
  • Centerpiece Film – Hong Kong Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  • Runner-up for Audience Award at Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney
  • Runner-Up for Audience Award at Roze Filmdagen, Amsterdam

Screenings

  1. Hyderabad Queer Film Festival, December 2021
  2. Yatha Katha International Film & Literature Festival, November 2021
  3. 12th Annual Reel Out Charlotte Film Festival – October 23 – November 1, 2020
  4. 23rd International AIDS Conference – July 6-10, 2020
  5. APC Netflix and Chill With Out On Film – April 20, 2020
  6. London Indian Film Festival, 2020
  7. The Hague Global Cinema Festival for, Hague, Netherlands – November 15, 2019
  8. International Queer Film Festival, Playa del Carmen, Mexico – November 9, 2019
  9. CINE MOVILH, Chile – October 25, 26 & November 24, 27, 2019
  10. New Jersey Indian International Film Festival (NJIIFF), South Plainfield, USA – October 19, 2019
  11. 100% Manusia Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia – September 26 & 28, 2019
  12. Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Special Screening, Tampa, USA – July 20, 2019
  13. ‘Queer’ Asia Film Festival, London, UK – July 11, 2019
  14. Nepal-America International Film Festival, Maryland, USA – June 29, 2019
  15. Bucharest Pride, Romania – May 17, 2019
  16. Pink Apple – Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Switzerland – May 2, 3 & 11, 2019
  17. The Gay Film Week Freiburg (SFF), Germany – May 5, 2019
  18. Out & Loud – Pune International Queer Film Festival, Pune, India – April 18, 2019
  19. SERILE FILMULUI GAY International Film Festival, Romania – April 17, 2019
  20. Bimal Roy Memorial Special Screening, Mumbai, India – April 12, 2019
  21. Tongues On Fire | UK Asian Film Festival, London & Leicester, UK – April 3 & 5, 2019
  22. Reincarnate II, Regional Art and Film Festival 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh – March 29, 2019
  23. qFLIX Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA – March 27, 2019
  24. Advait Pune Queer Film Festival, Pune, India – March 24, 2019
  25. Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, Tunisia – March 23, 2019
  26. San Francisco Theatrical Release, San Francisco, USA – February 21 – 24, 2019
  27. Zinegoak – Bilbao’s International GayLesboTrans Film and Performing Arts Festival, Bilbao, Spain – February 17, 2019
  28. Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai, India – February 5, 2019
  29. &PROUD | Yangon LGBT Film Festival, Yangon, Myanmar – February 3, 2019
  30. Queer Voices, Moldova – January 15, 2019
  31. Rainbow Umbrella Film Festival, London, UK – January 11, 2019
  32. South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF), New York, USA – December 15, 2018
  33. Special Screening, Winston-Salem, USA – December 11, 2018
  34. OMovies Film Festival, Naples, Italy – December 10, 2018
  35. Lifft India Filmotsav 2018, Lonavla, India – December 10, 2018
  36. Caledioscope, Boston, USA – December 7, 2018
  37. IMAGE+NATION Montreal LGBT Film Festival, Montreal, Canada – December 2, 2018
  38. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA – November 28, 2018
  39. Festival de Cine LGBT del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador – November 19 & Guayaquil, Ecuador – November 25, 2018
  40. Holebi Film Festival, Leuven, Belgium – November 19, 2018
  41. OutReels Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA – November 11, 2018
  42. Brandg Splendours of India & Ganges Cruise – November 9, 2018
  43. Seoul Pride Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea – November 3 & 6, 2018
  44. Queer-Streifen Film Festival, Münster, Germany – November 3, 2018
  45. Filmfest homochrom, Dortmund, Germany – October 28, 2018
  46. The Barcelona International LGTIB Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain – October 21, 2018
  47. TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, Seattle, USA – October 20, 2018
  48. Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany – October 19, 2018
  49. Queer-Streifen Film Festival, Regensburg, Germany – October 18, 2018
  50. Filmfest homochrom, Cologne, Germany – October 17, 2018
  51. Kansas International Film Festival, Overland Park, USA – October 14, 2018
  52. Iris Prize Festival, Cardiff, UK – October 13, 2018
  53. Bollywood Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic – October 12, 2018
  54. Elsiever, Amsterdam – October 11, 2018
  55. Transcreen, Amsterdam – October 10, 2018
  56. Montego Bay Pride Film Festival, Jamaica – October 9, 2018
  57. OUT at the Movies, Winston-Salem, USA – October 7, 2018
  58. Out On Film: Atlanta’s LGBT Film Festival, Atlanta, USA – September 29, 2018
  59. Cinema Queer, Stockholm, Sweden – September 29, 2018
  60. Chicago South Asian Film Festival, Chicago, USA – September 22, 2018
  61. Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Hong Kong, China – September 20 & 21, 2018
  62. Cinestudio, Hartford, USA – September 13, 2018
  63. Lonavala International Film Festival, Lonavla, India – September 7 & 8, 2018
  64. North Carolina Gay + Lesbian Film Festival (NCGLFF), Durham, USA – August 19 & 21, 2018
  65. Chichester International Film Festival, Chichester, UK – August 12, 2018
  66. Prishtina International Film Festival (PriFest), Pristina, Kosovo – July 19, 2018
  67. Outfest Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA – July 15, 2018
  68. Outfest Peru, Lima, Peru – July 5, 2018
  69. Rio Gender & Sexuality Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – July 8, 11 & 12, 2018
  70. The Abhimani European Film Festival, Colombo, Sri Lanka – June 30, 2018
  71. Shanghai Pride Film Festival, Shanghai, China – June 16, 2018
  72. Midzomergracht Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands – June 15, 2018
  73. OUT HERE NOW: Kansas City LGBT Film Festival, Kansas City, USA – June 14, 2018
  74. Inside Out: Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Toronto, Canada – June 2, 2018
  75. KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, Mumbai, India – May 27, 2018
  76. Outfest Fusion, Los Angeles, USA – March 10, 2018
  77. Roze Filmdagen, Amsterdam, Netherlands – March 10, 2018
  78. Bengaluru International Film Festival, Bengaluru, India – March 1, 2018
  79. Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia – February 25, 2018