The Gollapudi Srinivas award has gone to UCLA film-grad Shonali Bose for her film "Amu".

Shonali Bose 

"Amu" is less about finger-pointing than a plea for India to confront its past, to overthrow its official amnesia and deal with the cycles of sectarian violence that continue to haunt that country as witnessed by the 2002 uprising in Gujarat.

Now one more lesson that Diasporic film can do to make it self a more useful and less narcisstic genre of film making is to reveal to the "homeland" its weaknesses as a nation, this way nations are benefited from strong external impressions.

We need more awards from India to support such meaningul movies.