Anurag Kashyap condemn Indians seeking credit for Payal Kapadia's big win at Cannes 2024

This year, Indians have indeed raised big at the Cannes Film Festival 2024. Payal Kapadia is one such big name who brought immense respect, joy, and success to the country's cinematic frontline by bagging the iconic Grand Prix award at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her film All We Imagine As Light. Post her big win at the global film festival, every proud Indian came front to congratulate Payal including government officials and Bollywood dignitaries, the list of her well-wishers seems truly long. 

Anurag Kashyap slams Indians for taking credit. 

But recently Gangs of Wasseypur maker, Anurag Kashyap raised a big toast to Payal but tagged the whole 'congratulation' moment as a fake celebration. According to the filmmaker, Indians have this crooked tendency to take credit for someone else's win and that is innate. 

During a recent conversation with a well-known media forum, Kashyap spoke on Payal Kapadia's achievement and said that India took the instance as their win but these films were all done independently without getting any support from anyone throughout the process of making, even governments don't support such movies, he strongly argues. In his own words, he said, "India just likes to take credit for a lot of things, they do not support these films, and they don’t even support these films to have a release in cinema." In fact he strongly believes that even if the film gets its theatrical release today, nobody will visit the theatres, hence emphasizing everyone to stop taking credit and put a dot with all the fake celebrations. 

Anurag Kashyap slams former chairman of FTII

Apart from that, Kashyap also recalled the person who had once put a case against her also turned out to be the first person to take credit for her achievement. Calling it shameful, he named the person as Gajendra Chauhan, former chairman of FTII. Following the statement, he said, "The worst part is that the man who put the case against her, and sent some students to jail, is the first man who took the credit for her and said, ‘I’m proud that I was the FTII (chairperson)’. What is his name? Yudhishthir ji (his Mahabharat role), Gajendra Chauhan said, ‘I’m so proud that she was the student when I was the head’. You are the one who put the case against her."

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India's win at Cannes 2024

Meanwhile, Payal Kapadia is not the only winner at the prestigious Cannes as two more Indians bagged some awe-struck honoraries including Anasuya Sengupta and Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) student Chidananda S Naik who were awarded the Best Actress award in the Un Certain Regard strand for The Shameless and the Best Short Film Award in the La Cinef section for Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know respectively. 

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