New York, Barack Obama’s election as US president is historic not just for Americans but for people the world over, say three of Indian cinema’s best known women - Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair and Shabana Azmi.

Tributes to the president-elect who will be the first African American in the White House poured in Wednesday at the the opening of the five-day MIAAC Film Festival of Indian Independent and Diaspora films.

"It is an amazing, amazing victory for people of all colo