Mumbai, May 17 -- Cannes may be one of the biggest cinema festivals in the world, but according to Anurag Kashyap, the Indian obsession around it has gone somewhere else completely. In a recent interview with Sucharita Tyagi at the Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker got brutally honest about how Bollywood and Indian celebrities often treat Cannes more like a red carpet event than a celebration of cinema.

During the conversation, Sucharita pointed out the irony and said that Anurag Kashyap himself had walked the red carpet, but "kisi ko kaano kaan khabar tak nahi hai." Anurag, in his usual dry humour, laughed it off and said, "Hum log side se chale jaate hain."

But the joke quickly turned into a sharper observation. Anurag said that wal...