‘Cannes shows Bollywood has huge market abroad’

‘Cannes shows Bollywood has huge market abroad’

Mumbai, July 13: There’s a huge market abroad that is open to Indian films and it’s not just non-resident Indians (NRIs), says Anurag Kashyap whose production Udaan was screened at the Cannes film festival. He also dismisses speculation that he has always wanted only Aamir Khan in his next directorial venture.

“Cannes was a big learning experience for me. After going there, I realised that the film market is so huge. I also realised that we should not think that only the NRI audience will see our films abroad that we make our films accordingly. There are many other markets out there that are open to Indian films,” Kashyap told IANS in an interview.

Kashyap’s Udaan was shown in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes this year. Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, it is the coming-of-age story of a teenaged boy who returns to his hometown of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, after being left at a boarding school for eight years by his father.