Bollywood docu at Cannes - Hindustan Times

Shekhar Kapur's documentary-production Bollywood, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told celebrates Hindi cinema. And now, it will do so during a foe territory during this year's Cannes Film Festival upon May 14. "The documentary is a outcome of a review you had with Thierry Fremaux during Cannes last

year. He spoke of a general audience's mindfulness with Bollywood. But it was his incapacity to find a movie which he could uncover in a categorical section, which urged me to have a movie generally for Cannes," says Shekhar.

Director-producer Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra as well as American documentary filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist (best well known for his drive-in theatre Favela Rising as well as The Scribe of Urabá) have destined this 81-minute documentary about "the many vilified as well as desired component of Indian drive-in theatre — a strain as well as dance". It has been co constructed by Trishya Screwvala, UTV Motion Pictures.

"Bollywood is a large code a universe over, so you suspicion because not have a documentary about a funny, low-pitched as well as erotic Indian strain as well as dance but educational interviews in it," says Shekhar, adding. "Unlike a West, a drive-in theatre don't need to be called 'musicals'; irrespective of a genre, each movie is abounding in a low-pitched content."

Rakeysh as well as Jeff have attempted to break down into parts how Bollywood reflects a becoming different story as well as moralities of a world's largest democracy. It describes a Mumbai movie industry's enchanting lean upon dual billion people. "Some contend it gives temperament to twenty-five million Indians which have left India's shores as well as whose third generations have been still dependant to it," he says. Besides Bollywood, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, Sri Lankan executive Vimukthi Jayasundara's Indian co-production Mushroom, is a usually Indian movie which has done it to Cannes this year. Last year, Vikramaditya Motwane's coming-of-age play Udaan (2010) was comparison in a Un Certain Regard territory of a festival.