Dev Patel became so emotional he had to turn his back and wipe his tears, Monkey Man co-star recounts SXSW premiere

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Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man premiered at the SXSW..

Monkey Man, directed by Dev Patel, recently won the Headliner Audience Award Winner at the SXSW Film Festival..

Dev Patel, Vipin Sharma, and Sobhita Dhulipala at the SXSW premiere of Monkey Man What happened at the premiere?..

Speaking about his experience and the audience reaction for Monkey Man at SXSW, Dev's co-star Vipin Sharma said in a statement, As soon as the very first screening of Monkey Man finished, at Paramount Theatre in Austin on March 11, the audiences started to scream with joy..

Barely able to control his emotions, he then very humbly asked Claudette, the director of the festival, if he could bring the cast on stage and that was our dream come true moment after almost 3 years of having shot the film in a bubble in Indonesia on an island during the pandemic!".

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