Over the past few years however, the number of Indian films going to Cannes for commercial purpose of finding new markets has radically increased. Also, the film makers look at the festival as an opportunity to set up collaboration projects with the film makers and technicians from other countries. From the past couple of years, many big production houses have taken their films to Cannes for international selling and this year is going to be no different. In fact, this year will see some of the biggest films of Bollywood making their way to festival. Films like UTV’s Rang De Basanti, Jagmohan Mundras Provoked, Salman Khan starrer Marigold, Sudipto Sen’s The Last Monk, Rajat Kapur’s Mixed Doubles and Santosh Sivan’s Navarasa will have market screenings at Cannes. Besides, Vishal Bhardawaj will take his film Omkara to Cannes. The star cast of the film which includes Saif Ali Khan, Ajay Devgan, Viveik Oberoi and Bipasha Basu will also be present at the event. And of course Karan Johar will be landing at Cannes with Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. Preity Zinta who stars in the film will accompany Karan to Cannes in promoting the film. Besides this, 35 regional film makers have got together this year and will try to sell their films at the Cannes market. The list includes films like Rajnikanth’s Tamil blockbuster Chandramukhi and director Mani Ratnam’s Lajo. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Courtesy the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), nearly 65 Indian films will be screened at Cannes this year. Apart from that, nearly 35 new projects will be exhibited. Film and TV Guild of India, Film Federation of India, Indian Film Exporters Association and South Indian Film Exporters Association are also part of the India Pavilion set up by CII. Some of the companies and production houses that will be having representations at Cannes this year are Adlabs Films, Kaleidoscope Entertainment, AP international (biggest exporter of South Indian Movies), Sahara One Motion Pictures, EROS Multimedia, NFDC, Celluloid Dreams, iDreams Productions, IFFI and Goa Film Bazaar and Shemaroo.<br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>