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“Indian Government Do Not Support Award Winning Films”, Said Anurag Kashyap On Films Winning Award At Cannes!!

By Gunjan Chaudhary

June 11, 2024

Anurag Kashyap is a well-known director of Indian films. His films have a different style of their own. His films have a special audience. Because of this, he often gets criticism for his films. However, he also often remains in the news for his statements. He is known for speaking his mind freely. Now once again he has criticized the government for not supporting the films.

Anurag Kashyap

Anurag Kashyap does not give credit to the government for the awards received at the Cannes Film Festival. He said that during this festival, the independent filmmakers who have won, it is only their victory. Such award-winning films are not given any special support by the government. He said, “There was nothing special for India in Cannes, none of those winning films are Indian. Such cinema is not supported in India, as the films shown in Cannes are not supported.”

Anurag Kashyap

Let us tell you that the Cannes Film Festival was organized last month. India achieved an unprecedented feat in the 77th edition of this festival. During this time India won three awards. Payal Kapadia became the first Indian director to win the Grand Prix for her film “All We Imagine as Light”. Apart from her, Anasuya Sengupta won the Best Actress award in the Un Certain Regard strand for “The Shameless”. At the same time, FTII student Chidanand S. Naik won the Best Short Film award in the La Cinéf section for “Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know”.

Anurag Kashyap

Recently, Anurag also criticized the audience who watch films in the name of heroes. During this, he said, “We have an audience who worship heroes. Our country has a very large population, yet compared to China, we have a very low number of theaters”. Talking about Anurag’s work front, he will be seen as an actor with Gulshan Devaiah in the action thriller web series Bad Cop, which will premiere on Disney + Hotstar on June 27. Apart from this, he is going to direct the Hindi remake of ‘Kill Bill’ as a director.