Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Kennedy’ Starring Sunny Leone Is Going To Cannes

MUMBAI, (IANS) – Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who is known for creating the modern-day classic ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, ‘Ugly’, ‘Gulaal’ and ‘No Smoking’, is once again set to visit the French Riviera as his next film ‘Kennedy’ starring Sunny Leone has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

 The film will be a part of the midnight screening section. Kashyap has been a regular at Cannes.

While his magnum opus ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ was screened at the 2012 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the anthology film ‘Bombay Talkies’, on which he served as one of the directors, premiered under Special Screenings at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. ‘Ugly’ was released a year after ‘GoW’ and was screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it also received a standing ovation. His ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’ also premiered in the Director’s Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.