Headed for Hollywood

Model and actor Rusi Mistry of Bom­bay’s Malcolm Baug is headed for Hollywood, having been confirmed by a California based film production company to play an important role in its international English film, The Letters, based on the life of Mother Teresa. Shooting will begin in April in Goa. So far, during his 16-year-career, the 60-year-old has featured in several advertising films and essayed small roles in Hindi films, reveals an e-mail received from him by Parsiana. His most recent role was in the film Shaitan in 2011.

Rusi Mistry: his star is rising

Last year Mistry played the part of a naughty elderly inmate in a day care center for healthy retired folks in a short English film conceptualized, produced and directed by a student of film direction at New York Film Academy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The film, titled Forever and a Day, will be sent by UCLA to international film festivals, he writes. Mistry’s star is rising as he mentions that he has also been shortlisted by an Australian filmmaker to act in a new English film to go on the floors later in the year.