MUMBAI: Zee Talkies‘ Natarang will be the opening film at the 28th Munich International Film Festival, to be held from 25 June to 3 July.

The film had earlier won several prestigious awards like the best film award at the Pune International Film Festival.

Says Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. COO Nitin Vaidya, "Natarang has done an awesome business and achieved great appreciation from nationwide critics. Now Zee Talkies is really proud for getting international recognition through this festival and augurs well for us as our film will get a great applause from the worldwide audiences. We are happy that our faith in this project has been justified."

This year the Munich film festival will be holding the premieres of more than 200 German films besides screening films from 48 countries.

The festival is Germany‘s leading film festival that attracts over 65,000 film lovers every year and as many as 600 members of the international press and over 1000 film-related professionals.