Pooja Hegde Makes Her Dream Debut At Canners Film Festival 2022

Pooja Hegde Makes Her Dream Debut At Canners Film Festival 2022 – “I have come as a representative for India”

The most famous pavilion was attended by leading industry members like Prasoon Joshi, AR Rahman, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Deepika Padukone, R Madhavan, Tamannaah Bhatia and many others.

On the occasion, Pooja Hegde thanked Anurag Thakur: the Union Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs as well as Information and Broadcasting and stated, “It has always been a dream to work at Cannes and I think what’s amazing sir – thank you Anurag sir for making this happen – is that I have not come with a brand but I have come with brand India. I have come as a representative for India. There cannot be a bigger honour for me to be very honest, to come as an Indian actor celebrating Indian cinema.”

Hegde said, “We have many stories in India.” Speaking about renowned filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, she continued, “What the West loves about India is Satyajit Ray sir’s films, whether it is the Apu series or whether it is a film like ‘Nayak’ which is about a hero and his personal struggle and it has just been shot so beautifully. It’s got so much skill, so much craft and we have that talent in India, we have it. We just need to stop aping the West and we need to embrace our personal stories whether it is ‘Charulata’. These are like films that are from India which have been celebrated across the globe.”

Pooja Hegde also mentioned AR Rahman, Nawazuddin Siddiqui for their contributions to Indian cinema and paid tribute to late Irrfan Khan. She said, “Rahman sir, you have put India on the map. Nawaz sir, you are doing amazing work whether it is working with the West or like, if Irrfan sir was not here today, who also kind of put India on the map.” The actress finished her statement by saying, “So I just feel like we should stop aping the West.”