Cannes 2022 red carpet: List of celebs who walked in from India
Cannes 2022: The red carpet event at the 75th Cannes Film Festival will be a grand event for the Indian audience as cine-goers from across India are set to walk as part of the Indian delegation on May 17, the opening day of the festival. information and broadcasting Anurag Thakur Will lead the delegation from India to Cannes. The list of celebrities will also include stars from major music industries across India.
Actor-producer R Madhavan in the delegation, Akshay KumarMusic Director AR Rahman, Actor Nawazuddin SiddiquiPooja Hegde and Nayanthara along with CBFC chief Prasoon Joshi, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and music composer Ricky Rez among others.
At a time when India celebrates its 75th year of independence and has launched the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, India and France are also celebrating their 75 years of association, as is the annual Cannes Film Festival.
Also, for the first time in its history, India has been named an official ‘Country of Honour’ in the upcoming Marche du Film, which is held in conjunction with the Cannes Film Festival in France.
Under this title, 5 new start-ups will be given an opportunity to pitch to the audio-visual industry. Ten professionals will participate in Animation Day. One of the highlights of this year’s festival will be the world premiere of a film by R Madhavan titled ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’, a biographical drama film based on the life of Nambi Narayanan, a former Indian space scientist and aerospace engineer. . Research organization that was falsely accused of espionage. Produced by Madhavan, the film will be released on May 19.
Bharat has also been given a chance to pitch 5 selected films in the ‘Goes to Cannes section’. These movies are part of WIP Lab under Film Bazaar. A cinema hall named Olympia Screen has been dedicated to India for the screening of ‘Unpublished films’ on 22nd May, 2022.
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There are 5 movies selected under this category. Also, the remastered classic of Satyajit Ray Classic – ‘Pratidwandi’ will be screened in the Cannes Classic section. This is to mark his centenary celebrations.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 17 to May 26 and the organizers have done away with wearing masks or asking for any kind of COVID testing.
(ANI)