Mumbai: Tannishtha Chatterjee feels Indian films still have a long way to go when it comes to getting recognition in the international arena. The actress, known for her role in 'Brick Lane', points out that the focus is not on the right kind of cinema or actors in the country.
Producer Sheetal Talwar, who produced 'Dharm', has gone on record to say Bollywood representation in the Cannes International Film Festival is of no relevance.
Said Tannishtha: "I think what Sheetal says is to some extent true. However, it is not entirely true. This yer 'Miss Lovely' was in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. And even 'The Gangs Of Wasseypur' is in the Directors' Fortnight."
"Having said that, I'd say we haven't had another Satyajit Ray making a global impact so many years after Ray. We make a 800 films a year. But we're nowhere globally. Iran produces 25 films per year and their films get noticed everywhere."...
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12:07 PM, May 28, 2012
Cannes: 'After Lucia' by Mexican director Michel Franco has won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival's sidebar competition, Un Certain Regard. It was chosen Saturday from a slate of 20 films by a jury headed by British actor Tim Roth. Un Certain Regard focuses on new and emerging filmmakers. The jury gave second prize to French film 'Le Grand Soir' by Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, and a...
11:27 AM, May 28, 2012
Cannes: The 2012 Cannes Film Festival announced its winners on Sunday. Following is a list of the main awards. 1. Palme d'Or (Best Film) - 'Love'/Amour (Austria) by Michael Haneke 2. Grand Prix (Runner-up) - 'Reality' (Italy) by Matteo Garrone 3. Jury Prize (Third Prize) - 'The Angels' Share' (Britain) by Ken Loach 4. Camera d'Or (Debut Film) - 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' (U.S.) by Benh Zeitlin 5. Best...
10:28 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Indian singer Jasbir Jassi has performed at the 65th Cannes International Fil Festival. The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) had selected Jassi to perform at the Incredible India theme party which at Cannes on May 21. Apparently, the singer was preparing for the event since last eighteen months. "I have always wanted to make my presence felt in the global music arena and this is a turning point,"...
05:24 PM, May 26, 2012
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04:18 PM, May 26, 2012
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01:08 PM, May 26, 2012
Cannes: Nicole Kidman plays an 'oversexed Barbie doll' in the hard-hitting murder drama 'The Paperboy', premiering at the Cannes film festival on Thursday and notable for arresting scenes of sex, violence and urination. In the adaptation of a Pete Dexter novel, the Australian Oscar winner plays trailer-trash bombshell Charlotte Bless, who is obsessed with a man on death row with whom she exchanges letters. She is drawn into a newspaper...
05:22 PM, May 25, 2012
Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is in Cannes as the brand ambassador for a cosmetics brand that she endorses. ...
03:33 PM, May 25, 2012
Cannes: There's definitely an Indian vibe at Cannes this year - something Sonam Kapoor is proud of. The Indian actress, and daughter of star Anil Kapoor, has been enjoying the French film festival for several days. Speaking at the L'Oreal and Chopard rooftop party last night, Kapoor said: "I love cinema so much and I think most of India does as well, and it's really nice that people around the...
03:30 PM, May 25, 2012
Cannes: The Bible of the Beat Generation, 'On the Road' premiered at Cannes on Wednesday, taking more than five decades for the frenetic tale of liberation, masculinity and post-War America to play out its journey from novel to the big screen. Furiously written on a typewriter over a three-week long creative binge in 1951, Jack Kerouac's On the Road is the seminal portrayal of 'Beat' culture and its spiritual quest...
01:33 PM, May 24, 2012
Cannes: Cars talk, a man is married to a monkey and Kylie Minogue contemplates suicide in 'Holy Motors', easily the oddest movie in competition at the Cannes film festival screened so far this year. Directed by French film maker Leos Carax, the story follows Mr. Oscar, a man who spends each day living 10 different lives, each mapped out for him in a dossier left in the back seat of...
01:10 PM, May 24, 2012
Cannes, France: Brad Pitt, in Cannes to promote his latest movie 'Killing Them Softly', has no intention of following fiancee Angelina Jolie into directing, he told Reuters on Wednesday. The 48-year-old, one of Hollywood's biggest stars, hit the red carpet at the film's world premiere on Tuesday, drawing noisy crowds and the world's media to the glitzy ceremony. As well as playing mob enforcer Jackie Cogan in the violent but...
12:02 PM, May 24, 2012
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01:24 PM, May 23, 2012
Los Angeles: Hollywood star Brad Pitt, who proposed to longtime partner Angelina Jolie earlier this year, said they haven't set a wedding date yet. "We actually, really and truly, have no date," Pitt said at the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday. The 48-year-old actor had earlier said that he would tie the knot with Jolie after every couple in the world had the legal right to do so and it seems...
01:12 PM, May 23, 2012
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12:40 PM, May 23, 2012
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11:50 AM, May 23, 2012
National award-winner Ashim Ahluwalia's 'Miss Lovely', is being showcased in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes film festival this year. ...
06:08 PM, May 22, 2012
