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India Doesn't Support 'Cannes Kind' Of Cinema, Says Anurag Kashyap

India Doesn't Support 'Cannes Kind' Of Cinema, Says Anurag Kashyap

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India didn't have any moment at Cannes, says filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, stressing that the victory of independent filmmakers at the European gala is theirs alone and the government doesn't support that kind of award winning cinema. India won an unprecedented three awards at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival last month -- Payal Kapadia became the first ever director from India to win the Grand Prix for her movie "All We Imagine As Light", Anasuya Sengupta was awarded best actress in the Un Certain Regard strand for "The Shameless", and FTII student Chidananda S. Naik earned the best short film award at the La Cinef section for "Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know". "I get very upset when it's said 'India@Cannes'. This is a boost... a shot in the arm for a lot of independent filmmakers but their victory is their own," Kashyap told PTI in an interview here.