Cannes 2023: Inside the midnight screening of Anurag Kashyap's 'Kennedy' starring Sunny Leone, Rahul Bhat

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's film 'Kennedy' starring Sunny Leone and Rahul Bhat had its world premiere at Cannes 2023 on Thursday. The film was selected under the midnight screening section of the film. The tickets for the screening were sold out in minutes and several well-known Indian personalities cheered for Kashyap and his team (All Pics/ Vikramaditya Motwane's Instagram)

Updated On: 2023-05-26 11:38 AM IST

Compiled by : Athulya Nambiar

Pictures from the screening of Kennedy

Anurag Kashyap's film 'Kennedy' received a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival 2023. Reportedly, the film received a 7-minute-long standing ovation

After the screening, filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane who shares a great bond with Kashyap took to his Instagram handle to share pictures from inside the screening of the film. Motwane shared pictures of happy faces of the team of 'Kennedy' and Indians who came to cheer and support the team

Surveen Chawla who attended the festival was among the audience who viewed the film at its worl premiere

In a light hearted moment, Kashyap can be seen taking blessings of filmmaker Sudhir Mishra as Rahul Bhat looks on

The film revolves around an insomniac ex-cop, long thought to be dead, but still operating for the corrupt system, and looking for redemption. It was selected for the Midnight Screening at Cannes Film Festival 2023

'Kennedy' is amongst the only two films from India this year to be the official selections at the festival this year

It was a day of plenty for India at the festival. Kanu Behl's Agra premiered to another packed house in Directors Fortnight at Theatre Croisette. Besides the director, 'Agra' was represented on stage by actors Priyanka Bose and Mohit Agarwal. On Wednesday afternoon, the Marathi-language short film, 'Nehemich', written and directed by Kolkata-based FTII alumnus Yudhajit Basu, was unveiled at the Bunuel Theatre in the Palais des Festivals

Sunny Leone who was seen basking in the glorious moment took to her Instagram account and shared her red carpet look which she captioned, "The world premiere of #kennedy and I could not be more proud to represent Indian cinema . Such an amazing moment for myself and the entire team!"

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