Tarsem Singh Dhandwar Returns to Big Screen With India-Set Toronto Saga ‘Dear Jassi,’ a ‘Haneke or Gaspar Noé Script Directed by Iranians’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, the filmmaker previously known simply as Tarsem, is returning to the big screen and to his roots with “Dear Jassi,” which has its world premiere Toronto Film Festival Sept.
10. The new film is set in the 1990s and based on a real-life incident. It follows Indian origin Canadian Jassi (Pavia Sidhu), who on a visit to her ancestral village in Punjab, India, falls in love with Mithu (Yugam Sood).
They commence an epistolatory romance but familial objections, with the threat of terrifying consequences, get in the way of their love.
Dhandwar rose to prominence through commercials and music videos. Dhandwar previously directed films “The Cell” (2000), “The Fall” (2006), “Immortals” (2011) and “Mirror Mirror” (2012).
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