ondon (UK), May 23, 2025 (ANI): It's a proud moment for Indian cinema as five Indian films have made it to the prestigious 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Among them, Tanvi The Great has become one of the most talked-about films this year. The film is special for many reasons, mainly because it marks legendary actor Anupam Kher's return to the director's chair after more than two decades. The cast behind Tanvi The Great including Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Pallavi Joshi, and debutant Shubhangi Dutt spoke to ANI about the emotional journey of the film and the response it received at Cannes.
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00:00Thank you, thank you so much. We had an amazing response from the international
00:05audiences from Cairns and yesterday in London it was phenomenal. You see when
00:13you make a film which is from your heart and I'm not a traditionally director
00:20I'm primarily an actor but the story inspired me or when it reaches the heart
00:27of the people it's very gratifying. The kind of comments we got in Cairns and in
00:33London yesterday is fantastic. I wanted to make a film from India for the world
00:38and I think that aim I have managed to sort of achieve because it's a universal
00:46subject. It's a subject which all of us deal with in some way or the other but
00:53maybe ignore it because we think that it's somebody else's problem and the
00:59whole thing is said with a certain amount of entertainment. To me
01:07autism is super power. The story of Tanvi is that and I was very overwhelmed by the
01:16reaction of people. People were clapping in between because there are no macho
01:22heroes who sort of are beating 12 people and their audience claps. They were
01:29clapping because the thought of the film was resonating with them and they were
01:35crying. They were laughing at the end of the film. They didn't want to go. They were
01:41asking questions. So it's a beautiful feeling. Thank you.
01:47And so I would also like to ask you, this is an incredible moment of course for Indian
01:52cinema. The last time we had a conversation you had shared how the film had its own
01:58share of struggles. So what does this recognition mean to you personally and for
02:06the, you know, for the entire team? So I have always looked at my life that the
02:13tagline of the film is Tanvi the Great, different but no less. So I think that
02:18applies to everybody, all of us, especially I have applied it to my life. I came to
02:25the city of Mumbai with 37 rupees. After three years of struggle, I bought a film. I was 27, 28 and I
02:33got a role of 75-year-old man. So I've always tried to break the stereotype, you know, the
02:42typecasting. I did all kinds of films. I wrote books which were not about acting. The
02:49books were about motivational books. I run an acting school. I also wanted to make a film
02:55which was different but no less. We are, I'm not saying it out of arrogance. I am a part of that
03:04cinema. We are, I think right now, a little bankrupt about the script, especially the Hindi cinema. We need, we are
03:17going through a time when I think we need to even respect. So in that, the success, we
03:25talked about the box office when it's religious is on 18th of July. But the
03:30success of the film on an international platform like Cannes and then in London
03:35proves that if you do something with conviction against all odds, it is the most
03:41gratifying film and it will reach people's heart. Of course, you know, one has read about autism
03:48and we are a little sensitized about it generally, you know, as people. But this made me understand
03:56the qualities, the super qualities that a human being has. And I have always believed that when
04:04God takes away one faculty, he, she, whoever God may be, gives you something so much more
04:11in return. And it's such a pleasure to, you know, see what can be unfold in front of your
04:17eyes, where super qualities unfold. So I think it has sensitized us more and has filled our heart
04:25with a lot of empathy for children who have autism. And at the same time, there is also
04:32a sense of, what do you say, we feel that, you know, these people, these children have superpowers.
04:40So we don't need to look at them with pity. But we should be proud that these kids are, we
04:46are blessed to have these kids in our lives. There are certain films that will work in our
04:51country, for our audiences, for our certain target audiences. And we should not, we should
04:57not stop making those kinds of films. Because those films are very important for, for our own
05:02culture, for our own people. And if I might use a nice Hindi word, it's our
05:08in many ways. We need that nutrition of entertainment that we've grown upon over, over decades.
05:14And why should we abandon that? However, there are certain kinds of films, there's a certain
05:19tonality that is required, which I think should go into the international markets, so that
05:24we have the searchlights pointing towards our country, that, you know, we can, we do what
05:31we do, as we've been doing over so many decades so beautifully well. But this is what we can
05:37do too. And for those kinds of films, I think you have to understand that those international
05:42audiences need to be, to be lured towards India.
05:46Thank you very much.