CANNES , May 27 ― India's film industry, the world's most prolific, is taking centre stage at the Cannes Film Festival, but insiders say it's a challenge to please global audiences without losing its massive fanbase at home.
“We feel that Indian cinema may be at a turning point, that there's been a renewal of Indian cinema,” Jerome Paillard, the Marche du Film's executive director, told AFP. Indie film-makers in India ― with a taste for the more high-brow fare that might interest the global festival circuit ― often struggle to get financing from major producers or the government, said Paillard.