Onir: Atleast post about the films you watched at Cannes, and not just your clothes!

Filmmaker Onir criticized the trend of Indian celebrities going to Cannes Film Festival just to be clicked wearing costumes instead of focusing on the films and panel discussions. He urged industry people to be more interested in what the festival is actually celebrating and to represent their country's tradition and culture on the global platform. Onir emphasized that the center focus should be films and filmmakers, not just the clothes.

Onir always believes in calling a spade a spade. And he had something to say about the India presence at the Cannes film festival recently too. He took to Twitter and shared, “Never got it why people go to #CannesFilmFestival just to be clicked wearing all kinds of costumes( very often strange) when they don’t have any of their films screening, Nor are they passionate about watching films and panel discussions. Does one really feel good doing this?”

Filmmaker Onir’s next release is the film Pine Cones. (AFP)

When we ask him more about it, he says, “What pushed me to tweet this is the realisation that people put pics of them wearing so many clothes there, no one is really talking much about the films that are there. Some of the best films from across the world are screened there. So how come we as industry people are so little interested in what the festival is actually celebrating? All everyone is focusing on is clothes, who cares?”

What the filmmaker is also not able to wrap his head around is that people going from here don’t wear something which represents their culture on the global platform. “Most of them, whatever they wear, it’s not even like as if it’s representing the country’s tradition, culture, the fashion. Someone tweeted ‘it’s important to be seen’, but it makes no difference to the world, if they get photographed there. What matters is the work, I would want to hear more about our films than this ,” adds Onir.