The multi award-winning festival which is the southern hemisphere’s greatest annual celebration of Indian cinema recently announced the details for the upcoming 12-day festival. Each year the festival promises to offer Australian and Subcontinent audiences the opportunity to explore and engage with the diversity of Indian Cinema in different languages. The film is directed by Sandeep Modi and presented by superstar Akshay Kumar, who was impressed with the movie, in one of the screenings in Mumbai and he decided to present this movie.

The film, starring renowned lyricist Swanand Kirike. It is a story of friendship between a 15-year-old table-cleaning-waiter-boy Baalu and his chance encounter with a 45-year-old mentally slow man Prasanna that forces him to make a choice between his dreams and morality. Chumbak is the story of these two oddballs and their choices that shall shape their life.

Chumbak is slated to release on July 27 in India and will have its Australian premiere at the festival this year.