India, May 15 -- Every year, the Cannes Film Festival in France has become a spectacle not just for the Indian films presented there, but also for the fashion on the red carpet. On the sidelines of it, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap rues that Indian celebrities and filmmakers have forgotten the point of the festival.

Talking to Sucharita Tyagi, Anurag said, "In India, the problem and obsession with Cannes is only to walk the red carpet. They don't understand that there is a festival, and the purpose of it is beyond the red carpet." When asked about how nobody knows that Anurag was there on the opening day, he remarked, 'hum log side se chale jaate hain' (we head in from the side) instead of posing on the carpet.

When asked about it again, Anu...