ISLAMABAD, May 31 (Online): Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri talks about Cannes Film festival being all about fashion and not their central theme of films.<\/p>\n
In his recent tweet, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri had reminded everyone that the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival is meant for \u201cshowcasing films and it\u2019s not a fashion show\u201d. Elaborating on his viewpoint, he tells us, \u201cFilms have been replaced by fashion. And that too, with the kind of fashion which is to create sensation, instead of being real. Now, looking weird and to shock the audience is in fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agnihotri looks back at the time when he had gone to the Festival de Cannes for his film The Tashkent Files, and instantly realised that \u2018it has become more of a fashion show\u2019. He recalls, \u201cI witnessed that fashion models (actors and influencers) wearing weird costumes was the main attraction at the red carpet. And the greatest of the actors and directors walked by and nobody cared about them. In fact, they were being pushed around.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked why Bollywood actors are quiet on this whole scenario of fashion taking over films at Cannes, Agnihotri retorts, \u201cThey are busy doing brand promotions and that\u2019s why they have to keep quiet. It\u2019s like if you dance at somebody\u2019s wedding and take money for it, you can\u2019t criticise the food at the wedding. They have no spine left. Also, Bollywood actors have become social media influencers, so they are not acting anymore. For them, life is cool. \u201d<\/p>\n
Another thing that the filmmaker found \u201cextremely strange and weird\u201d about the 76th edition of Cannes Film Festival was the presence of several social media influencers on the red carpet. \u201cAnd they even got a lot of limelight. I don\u2019t understand what do these influencers have had to do with feature films? It was very unfair for audiences in general because this is a dumbing down process,\u201d he says, adding, \u201cYou are corrupting (the festival). Nobody cares about the central theme of the festival. Nobody knows which film was being screened or which won in what category. I am not commenting on anyone\u2019s competence or capability, but most actors who attended Cannes from India had none of their films being there, and some didn\u2019t even have a release in many years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hoping for better sense to prevail the next year, the filmmaker emphasises that Cannes is supposed to be a festival of important and unconventional films. \u201cEspecially films which make very bold statements and are even controversial. I am talking about films that generally aren\u2019t mainstream and won\u2019t get a platform to be showcased otherwise,\u201d he concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD, May 31 (Online): Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri talks about Cannes Film festival being all about fashion and not their central theme of films. In his recent tweet, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri had reminded everyone that the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival is meant for \u201cshowcasing films […]<\/p>\n
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