To top five days of quality Indian film came 11th Annual New York Indian Film Festival to a close in grand fashion, on May 8 with the first closing night of spectacular red carpet of the film Rituparno Ghosh powerful Noukadubi which was followed by Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh Kapoor, Salman Rushdie, Mira Nair, Aparna Sen, Madhur Jaffrey, Ambassador Prakash Shah, Prabhu Dayal Consul General, and many other notable celebrities. After the first at the Asia Society in Manhattan has been the festival's annual ceremony. The winners are listed below.
Best Movie - Sthaniya Samba (spring in the colony), directed by Arjun Biswas and Moinak Gourisaria
Best Director - Aparna Sen, Mrinalini Iti
Best Actor - Rishi Kapoor, Sun Chaar Doon
Best Actress - E 'Konkona Sharma, Mrinal Iti
Best Screenplay - Mohan Raghavan, Dasan TD standard. VI B
Best Documentary - Bhopal (Max Carlson)
Best Short Film - only one of these days (Abhay Kumar)
