The Cannes Diary: Day 3: Jodha Akbar splendid visuals 
By Tanuj Garg (from Cannes), May 19, 2007 - 10:22 IST
Tanuj Garg, senior columnist and international movies professional at Studio 18, will give some quick daily pointers in the midst of his busy Cannes schedule, over the key festival dates…..only for India FM
Day 3
- Studio 18 announced its international venture, Little Zizou to be co-presented by Mira Nair and directed by ace writer Sooni Taraporevala. The film releases in early 2008 and is currently under production.
- The Cannes trailer of UTV's forthcoming historical, Jodha Akbar was much appreciated. "Splendid visuals," remarked a trade-type. The lead actors weren't present to promote the film though.
- A kind representative of the International Film Festival of Mumbai was handing out brochures to Indian stand owners and lamented, "Indian producers are submitting entries to international festivals but not to their own Mumbai festival." He added, "We have a selection committee that will select submissions and this year we have a lot of money as well because Adlabs is presenting it."
- The event of the evening was the India Party at the Majestic Beach, which saw a flurry of excited Indian invitees hovering around the entrance half an hour before the official time on the invite. The music and grub (either there was no vegetarian at all or it had run out in no time!) left a lot to be desired and a few top-brass guests expressed their discomfort to me about a sea of nobodies floating around the party, obviously hustling anything and everything! This morning's trade dailies had no pictorial coverage of the do. Hopefully, tomorrow's editions will!
- Mani Ratnam, Anubhav Sinha, Raju Hirani and Ashok Amritraj were present from the filmmakers' fraternity. Manisha Koirala (in Cannes on holiday), Aarti Surendranath and Preity Zinta (both in Cannes courtesy of Chopard) stole the thunder with their sartorial elegance.
- Most of us made a swift exit for one of the two dos also taking place that evening - the Soho Party in a neighbouring castle and the Abu Dhabi Film Festival get-together (attended by the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi) at The Mint Bar in Villa Khayat. [It seems the Sheikh wants to give the glamorous Dubai International Film Festival some serious competition by making the Abu Dhabi Festival a fierce contender!]
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