I&B Minister Anurag Thakur to inaugurate India Pavilion at Cannes Film Festival

Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur will inaugurate India Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival in France today. He said, India Pavilion will focus on positioning India as the 'Content Hub of the World'. 

In a newspaper article, the Minister wrote that India's presence at Cannes this year holds significance in many ways. He said it will be for the first time that India's red carpet lineup captures the diversity of country's cinematic excellence. He said the



celebration of India at Cannes and the recognition of its cinematic excellence the world over is set to manifest the country into the 'content hub of the world'.

The Union Minister reached Cannes yesterday and took a tour of the India Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. He also met Charles H. Rivkin, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Pictures Association of America.