DEEPIKA IN '75TH CANNES' JURY!

This is commendable that, one of the pretty talented actresses of our young Indian Cinema ('Gehraiyaan' fame) Deepika Padukone is in the jury of this '75th Cannes Film Festival'!

Other members in this jury for the competition section includes Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, Italian actress Jasmine Trinca, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, English actress-writer-producer Rebecca Hall, French - director Ladj Ly, American director Jeff Nichols, Norwegian director Joachim Trier..And French actor-filmmaker Vincent Lindon is president of jury!

'Mastani' of bollywood, various awards winner Deepika Padukone is also known for her produced-acted contemporary social film 'Chhapaak'! She also worked in hollywood!

Congrats to her and regards to all!!

- Manoj Kulkarni

'NEECHA NAGAR' HONOURED AT 'CANNES'..75!

'75th Cannes Film Festival' is going to happen now! This is also 75th anniversary year of our Indian cinema's victory in that festival.

That was Chetan Anand's 'Neecha Nagar' (1946) which won the top award 'Grand Prix du Festival International du Film' (now called 'Palme d’Or') there at Cannes!

My special article on this our pioneering film in social realism published on my this blog 'Chitrasrushti' (Filmworld) on 27th Oct.,2017. Please see it!

- Manoj Kulkarni