“Saving Chintu, Bring Love Home ” a short film directed by Tushar Tyagi, now showing at the New York Indian Film Festival 2020 from July 24 to August 2.

The short film is produced by Ritika Jayaswal, Adil Hussain, Tushar Tyagi. The cast of this film is Adil Hussain, Dipannita Sharma, Sachin Bhatt, Edward Sonnenblick, Priyanka Setia.

Saving Chintu is a heartfelt story of an Indian-American gay couple that comes to India to adopt a child. This film beautifully ties multiple social issues like LGBTQ awareness and the adoption of HIV-positive children.

Director Tushar Tyagi is an award-winning filmmaker with his previous short films Kashi, Hari, A Broken Egg, and Gulabee were very well received in the film festival circuit.

Adil Hussain and Dipannita Sharma starrer “Saving Chintu”

Adil Hussain and Dipannita Sharma “Saving Chintu”

Adil Hussain is an Indian actor who has worked in Indian cinema as well as international films such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi. He received National Film Awards (Special Jury) at the 2017 National Film Awards for Hotel Salvation and Maj Rati Keteki. He has starred in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Norwegian and French films.

Model and Actor Dipannita Sharma starred in many Bollywood films such as “16 December”, “Jodi breaker”, “Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl” and many more. Last she was featured in YRF Production “War”.

Dipannita Sharma playing the character of Meera in this film, on a tweet she said that “saving chintu a short I’m really happy & proud to be a part of showing now at the new york Indian film festival “