This is the second time Anurag Kashyap’s film is being screened at the Directors' Fortnight. Last year Anurag’s two-part revenge saga Gangs of Wasseypur was screened in the same category.
Mumbai:
Anurag Kashyap's upcoming filmUgly has been selected at Cannes film festival's Directors'Fortnight sidebar, taking the count of Indian films at thefestival to four.
The three other films that are being screened at thefestival are Bombay Talkies, Monsoon Shootout and Dabba.
Anurag Kashyap is returning to Directors' Fortnight for thesecond time. He had screened his two-part revenge saga Gangsof Wasseypur last year.
Starring Tejaswini Kolhapure and Ronit Roy in lead roles,Ugly revolves around an alcoholic who reunites with herex-husband when their child is kidnapped.
Directors' Fortnight, a parallel section of Cannes FilmFestival, will screen 20 other films apart from Kashyap'sUgly.
Incidentally, Kashyap is also related to the three othersfilms that are at Cannes this year.
He has directed one of the segments of Bombay Talkieswhich features four short films by Kashyap, Karan Johar, ZoyaAkhtar and Dibakar Banerjee. The film will have its galascreening at the festival that has invited India as the guestcountry to celebrate its 100 years of cinema this year.
Dabba (Lunchbox) and Monsoon Shootout are co-producedby Anurag Kashyap and have been selected for Cannes CriticsWeek and Midnight Screening sections respectively.
Starring Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in leadroles Dabba, is about a wrongly delivered lunchbox connectsa housewife to a lonely man in the dawn of his life and theybuild a fantasy life together. Ritesh Batra has directed thefilm.
Dabba will also compete for the Camera d'Or, whichrecognises the best first feature film presented in any of theCannes' selections.
Monsoon Shootout by Amit Kumar again stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui andis a thriller.
The three other films that are being screened at thefestival are Bombay Talkies, Monsoon Shootout and Dabba.
Anurag Kashyap is returning to Directors' Fortnight for thesecond time. He had screened his two-part revenge saga Gangsof Wasseypur last year.
Starring Tejaswini Kolhapure and Ronit Roy in lead roles,Ugly revolves around an alcoholic who reunites with herex-husband when their child is kidnapped.
Directors' Fortnight, a parallel section of Cannes FilmFestival, will screen 20 other films apart from Kashyap'sUgly.
Incidentally, Kashyap is also related to the three othersfilms that are at Cannes this year.
He has directed one of the segments of Bombay Talkieswhich features four short films by Kashyap, Karan Johar, ZoyaAkhtar and Dibakar Banerjee. The film will have its galascreening at the festival that has invited India as the guestcountry to celebrate its 100 years of cinema this year.
Dabba (Lunchbox) and Monsoon Shootout are co-producedby Anurag Kashyap and have been selected for Cannes CriticsWeek and Midnight Screening sections respectively.
Starring Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in leadroles Dabba, is about a wrongly delivered lunchbox connectsa housewife to a lonely man in the dawn of his life and theybuild a fantasy life together. Ritesh Batra has directed thefilm.
Dabba will also compete for the Camera d'Or, whichrecognises the best first feature film presented in any of theCannes' selections.
Monsoon Shootout by Amit Kumar again stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui andis a thriller.
