Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui is just not a brand new identify at Cannes Film Festival. From attending the pageant earlier than to his movies being screened there, the actor has been related to the distinguished pageant plenty of instances. This 12 months, he is part of an 11 member delegation led by Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur and India has been named the ‘Country of Honour’ on the Marche du Film, the enterprise counterpart of the gala. The actor may even be ringing on his birthday there.

Talking to Hindustan Times, the Gangs of Wasseypur actor mentioned that representing India is at all times particular, be it on his birthday or some other day. “I have spent five-six of my birthdays at Cannes as it’s been held around the same time every year. I am not a person who celebrates birthdays as such. It’s just like a normal day,” he instructed the publication.

The actor continued, “I had never thought that I will go to Cannes one day when I had started off. It’s the Mecca of cinema, vahan chaaron taraf ache cinema ki baat hoti hai, box office collection ki baat nahi hoti. Hum jo collection ki baatein kar kar ke cinema dekh rahe hain na aaj kal? Vahaan uski baat nahi hoti.”

Meanwhile, Anurag Thakur walked the carpet together with music maestro A R Rahman, actors R Madhavan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, composer Ricky Kej, lyricist and poet Prasoon Joshi, and veteran director Shekhar Kapur to attend the screening of the opening movie “Coupez” (Final Cut) by French director Michel Hazanavicius. On the opposite hand, Deepika Padukone, who’s a jury member this time, walked the pink carpet on the opening ceremony of the Cannes movie pageant. Deepika is part of a nine-member jury that can decide the winners of this 12 months’s Palme d’Or honours at a gala ceremony in Cannes on May 28.

Other Indian celebrities who walked the pink carpet have been Urvashi Rautela, Tamannaah Bhatia, and Kamal Haasan.

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