75th Cannes Film Festival 2022 is a special one for India as it is selected as the ‘Country of Honour’. It becomes more so special as many Indian celebs including Meera Chopra, Abhay Verma, Hina Khan and Helly Shah launch their first look film posters at the festival.
Legendary music composer A.R. Rehman has unveiled the first look poster of Sandeep Singh’s directorial debut film ‘Safed’. Presented by Vinod Bhanushali and Legend Studios, ‘Safed’ will release soon in cinemas.
The first look was revealed at the 75th Cannes Film Festival by A.R. Rehman in the presence of cast and crew of ‘Safed’. Sharing his experience of the same Sandeep Singh wrote on social media,
“It’s an honour that the world-renowned music composer, @arrahman, has blessed us by launching my directorial debut’s first look during the 75th Film Festival at Cannes. It’s a dream come true @verma_abhay_ @Meerrachopra @vinodbhanu @aryan687 @LegendStudios_ #safedincannes”
It’s an honour that the world-renowned music composer, @arrahman, has blessed us by launching my directorial debut’s first look during the 75th Film Festival at Cannes. It’s a dream come true @verma_abhay_ @Meerrachopra @vinodbhanu @aryan687 @LegendStudios_ #safedincannes pic.twitter.com/qL1cPCwwm1
— Sandeep Singh (@thisissandeeps) May 23, 2022
The first look poster features lead stars Meera Chopra as Kaali, dressed in a white saree and a big maangtika on the forehead and Abhay Verma as Chaandi, wearing a black brassiere. Both the characters display a deep sad look emoted through their eyes.
‘Safed’ marks the directorial debut of acclaimed producer Sandeep Singh, known for bankrolling films like ‘Ram-Leela’, ‘Mary Kom’, ‘Rowdy Rathore’, ‘PM Narendra Modi’, ‘Aligarh’, ‘Sarbjit’, ‘Bhoomi’, ‘Jhund’ and more.
Singh describes ’Safed’ as a story that remains largely untold, a narrative that is underlined with stereotypical attitudes, and the truth that has to be told wholesome. He says, “It is humbling and encouraging that I begin with a story that comes from a world that most of us know so little about; a story that pains my heart in a way that gives me happiness.”
Earlier, Hina Khan had also revealed the poster of her second film ‘Country Of Blind’ at the Cannes Film Festival 2022 – Indian Pavilion. ‘Country of Blind’ is an Indo-Western film written and directed by Rahat Kazmi and is based on 1904 H. G. Wells’ story of the same name.
As an actor it was both extraordinary and interesting to play a Blind girl fr more reasons thn I can write now.First look of our creative leap of faith ‘Country of Blind’ was unveiled in the most prestigious Cannes Film Festival 2022 – Indian Pavilion.@Rahatkazmifilms @HirosFBF pic.twitter.com/R7JJS5PgOJ
— Hina Khan (@eyehinakhan) May 22, 2022
Hina plays the role of a visually impaired girl in the film that is set in the valleys of Kashmir. As per the official synopsis, ‘Country of Blind’ follows Abhimanyu, an expert mountain climber who falls into a strange and isolated society of “non-seeing” people – claimed to have been in existence for fifteen generations and cut off from the rest of the world. Abhimanyu decides quickly that “in country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”. He fails in his efforts and gets trapped instead.
This is the second time Hina unveiled the first look of her film at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, the first time it was for her first film ‘Lines’ in 2019.
Also, popular television star Helly Shah is attending this year’s Cannes Film Festival to launch her debut film ‘Kaya Palat’ first look poster. Based on a true story of rival mafias the film is a dark thriller set in Jammu directed by Shoaib Nikash Shah who has co-written it with Rahat Kazmi.
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