Five-time National Award Winner for Best feature film, Buddhadev told PTI, "This is the 7th time that I have been invited to showcase my movie at the Masters section in Toronto. I feel honoured and humbled at being hounoured with this rare privilege."
In a mail to the director, Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director, Toronto International Film Festival, said: "We would like to invite Tope - The Bait' to make its world premiere in Toronto in our Masters section. It's a beautiful film."
According to the director, "The film has been shot as a fast paced drama projecting the contradictory lives of two categories of people of our country.
Ninety per cent of the film has been shot outdoors. Folklore plays an important role in the film. Treatment wise and in its narrative pattern, the film is almost like an intense suspense thriller, dark and poignant."
The film has also made it to the Busan International Film festival and prestigious BFI London international film festival.