Anurag Kashyap's Ugly on Cannes film festival's Directors' Fortnight list

    Anurag Kashyap's Ugly on Cannes film festival's Directors' Fortnight list

    Director Anurag Kashyap is on the hit list of the Cannes film festival as this year, hisUglyhas made it to the Directors' Fortnight roll and will be screened along with the special screening of three other selected filmsBombay Talkies, Monsoon ShootoutandDabba. The 40-year-old is chosen for the second time in a row at the festival under the same category. Last year, the director’sGangs of Wasseypur– Part 2 was screened.

    Anurag Kashyap's Ugly on Cannes film festival's Directors' Fortnight list

    Directors' Fortnight section has 20 other films to be screened along withUgly.The film is about an alcoholic wife who reunites with her ex-husband when their child gets kidnapped. The film features Tejaswini Kolhapure and Ronit Roy in the lead role. Apart from this, Anurag is also linked to three other films to be show cased at Cannes. He is the co-producer ofMonsoon ShootoutandDabba, which are selected for Cannes in different categories. A segment ofBombay Talkiesis alsodirected by Kashyap, which will be premiered at the festival. The other directors of the film are Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee.