The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival had quite the turnout from India, and in addition to a whole delegation headed by India's Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting Anurag Thakur, names like Deepika Padukone (Cannes 2022 main jury member), Kamal Haasan, director Pa. Ranjith among others were in attendance as well.
Indian delegation member AR Rahman was there to promote his upcoming directorial Le Musk, while co-member actor Madhavan will showcase the premiere of his upcoming directorial Rocketry: The Nambi Effect on May 19, 2022. [Rocketry releases in theaters on July 1, 2022].
A historic moment as India 🇮🇳 the 1st ‘Country of Honour’ at Marche Du Films @Festival_Cannes gets set to manifest into the ‘content hub of the world and the preferred ‘post production hub’ for global film makers. pic.twitter.com/GNHm1jWIiB
— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) May 17, 2022
Other Indian delegation members at the event were director Shekhar Kapur, actress Pooja Hegde, Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Actress Tamannah Bhatia, CBFC Chairman and renowned lyricist Prasoon Joshi, producer and CBFC member Vani Tripathi, Mame Khan, a famous folk singer from Rajasthan and Ricky Kej, a Grammy award winning musician.