Motorcycle diary of Joy Dutta

The news from my friend Gaurav made my day today.

He and his dirtrack productions made the movie “Riding Solo To The Top of the World” which won the National Critics award for best Film and also The best Documentary Award, the Golden Conch. More importantly, both the National and the Critics Jury loved the film and termed the style as “new form (of film making) emerges”.

According to Gaurav, the cash prize is going to help them edit the next film (One Crazy Ride) which is already shot.

More info on MIFF and other awards can be found here.

I know Gaurav from the time he and several other crazy enfield riders formed 60kph (www.60kph.com), a motorcycling group in 2001. We had our riding group in bangalore and kept touch with the rides he and his friends were doing. And talk about their rides ! Each one is no less than mindblowing and worth a whole documentary movie on its own. Not to mention that Gaurav alone did several rides I wont even imagine doing. I am jealous of him and will be forever, and he will be my motorcycling idol for decades to come. And no, we never got to meet in person.

What a guy to be proud of knowing !!!

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