Monica Bellucci cancels Mumbai visit due to daughter's illness; pulls out of MAMI event

Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who was supposed to make her maiden trip to India on the occasion of the ongoing Jio MAMI 19th Mumbai Film Festival, has cancelled her visit as her daughter has fallen ill. The organisers of the film festival tweeted on 13 October, explaining the reason of her absence:

We are so sorry to announce: pic.twitter.com/3zQWhLRcGG

— MAMI Mumbai Film Festival (@MumbaiFilmFest) October 13, 2017

Bellucci was to be the first recipient of the Trailblazer Award at the MAMI film festival for her contribution to cinema. The festival organisers have informed that the Wild Blood actress will be in India during February next year. Apart from receiving the award, Bellucci was also supposed to be part of an event where she was to feature in a conversation with Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. This event was scheduled to take place on 15 October, reports Mumbai Mirror. In the past, in an interview with Mumbai Mirror, the 53-year-old actress had expressed her appreciation for Indian films, some of which include the likes of Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas, Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly and Neeraj Ghaywan’s Masaan. Bellucci began her acting career in the year 1990. Prior to that, she was a successful model. In her 27-year-long film career she has delivered many successful films including the 2003 sci-fi classics The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, The Passion of the Christ (2004) and much recently in the 2015 James Bond flick, Spectre.