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NRI Varun Khanna's 'BEYOND HONOR'



Beyond Honor is a suspense drama that graphically depicts the violent devastation of the American dream for an immigrant cross-cultural family where, an Egyptian immigrant father and an American daughter relentlessly pursue radically different concepts of Honor. The conflict reaches barbaric proportions whereby these seemingly everyday characters come face-to-face and wage a horrific full-blown battle to preserve and regain their Honor.

Produced by Los Angeles based production house Cine02 Productions, 'BEYOND HONOR' was recently screened at MAMI Film Festival wherein it was the much-talked movie of the festival. 'Beyond Honor' is a hard-hitting movie with stupendous graphical representation revealing the atrocious side of human beliefs and torment women are subjected to even today. The movie is directed by Mumbai born - US based director Mr. Varun Khanna, currently working on his second film 'Spice of life' starring Anupam Kher, Dee Wallace Stone and David Oyelowo.

Raised in Bombay, India, Khanna, after years, as a teenage professional actor was one of the youngest professional stage directors in the sub-continent at age 17 with his production of Peter Shaffer's Equus. With Beyond Honor, Varun Khanna makes his debut as feature film writer and director.

With a BS in Physics from St. Xavier's College, an MA in scenic design from The University of Akron and an MFA in directing / acting from The Ohio State University, The Drama League of New York, in 1992 chose Khanna as one of three upcoming directors during a national US search.

A classically trained actor, Khanna after directing in the mid-west and New York for several years ran a leading theatre company in Ohio till 1995. He then moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to write for television news magazine. After years of working in television at WPXN, KSCI, The International Channel, and KTSF as segment producer, producer, writer and editor; Khanna founded Millindius, Inc a technology company that was acquired in 2003.

With roots deep in the theatre tradition, Khanna most enjoys working with actors through the medium of film. He is also a member of the Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences. A life-long ambition to create world-class cinema has been the compelling reason for this writer / director to stay committed to the art of story telling. A believer in technology and the digital age, Khanna is most influenced by stage director Peter Brook and film director Peter Weir and writers, Sam Shepard and Heiner Muller. Khanna is currently in post-production for his second feature film 'Spice of Life' starring Anupam Kher, Dee Wallace Stone, David Oyelowo, and Ranjit Chowdhry. Khanna is currently writing a Hindi film.

Also screened at 15th Palmspring Film Festival, renowned critic Robert Koehler says, “A graphic indictment of the physical and psychic horrors of female circumcision as well as an uncommonly frank depiction of an extremely patriarchal Arab-American family sets Varun Khanna's "Beyond Honor" apart. The picture is an undeniably bold and daring tragedy. Mumbai-born, Los Angeles-based Khanna points his lens at an immigrant culture other than his own, one colored by post - 9/11 Yank antipathy

 

 

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