Cannes 2023: Nandita Das shares throwback pictures of the red carpet, says the festival is about films not fashion

Noted filmmaker Nandita Das on Sunday shared her throwback pictures of the Cannes Film Festival on Instagram. Sharing a string of pictures, Das wrote how much she missed being at the prestigious film festival this year. For those unversed, the filmmaker had attended the festival in French Riveria multiple times.

Along with the pictures, Das shared a long note and shared her disappointment with celebrities and their fans for making Cannes all about fashion when it’s about films. She wrote sometimes people seem to forget that it is a festival of films not of clothes. She further wrote her pictures are the only ones in sarees as there is a fair amount of discussion about the celebrities who opted to drape sarees at Cannes.

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Apart from Nandita Das, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri also slammed celebrities at Cannes for making it about fashion and not films. On Monday, Agnihotri shared a picture of a newspaper showing celebrities with the headline Celebs up their glam game at Cannes. He called it the death of the Cannes Film Festival and said most of them in the image are not even actors or have any film showing at Cannes.

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Earlier, he shared a picture of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at Cannes and started a debate on costume slaves. He wrote they are mostly girls that we see in India too with almost every woman celebrity.

At the 76th Cannes Film Festival, several Indian celebrities and influencers walked the red carpet. The Cannes veteran, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made heads turn in her hooded gown studded with aluminium.

Other celebrities who stunned their fans are Mrunal Thakur, Diana Penty, Dolly Singh, Urvashi Rautela, Sapna Choudhary, Sara Ali Khan, Esha Gupta, Vijay Varma, and others.