MUMBAI: National award-winning Punjabi film Anhey Ghorey Da Daan (Alms for the Blind Horse) is scheduled to release across select cities on 10 August.

"With the release of this film, we are delivering on our promise to build the brand ‘Cinemas of India‘, which endorses deserving independent and art-house cinema across India and in doing so, we showcase to Indian audiences the diversity that exists in Indian cinema," NFDC, managing director Nina Lath Gupta said in a press statement.

The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), in association with PVR ‘Directors Rare‘, which gives a platform to critically-acclaimed and independent films, will theatrically release the movie across Delhi, Mumbai, Jalandhar and Ludhiana.

Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan is based on Punjabi novelist Gurdial Singh‘s novel by the same name. The film, which has been to international film festivals in Venice, London, Abu Dhabi, Rotterdam and Busan, brings to the screen the effect that years of subordination can bring to struggling masses.

The film won the 59th National film award for best direction and best cinematography.