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One of the more unusual films representing India at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov’s Hindi-language “The Shameless”, premiered on Friday morning at Salle Debussy here in the presence of the director and the two lead actresses, Anasuya Sengupta and Omara.<\/p>\n

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Introducing the title selected as part of Un Certain Regard, the festival’s deputy artistic director Christian Jeune said: “India has a very strong presence here this year. It includes this film by a Bulgarian director.” “This has been a long journey. It was nothing like Coppola’s, but it was 12 years,” Bojanov said, referring to Francis Ford Coppola’s decades in making “Megalopolis”.<\/p>\n

“There were points when I nearly gave up on the film. The completion of this project would not have possible without my fantastic cast and crew,” Bojanov said.<\/p>\n

Also featuring Mita Vashisht, Tanmay Dhanania, Rohit Kokate, Anasuya Sengupta and Auroshikha Dey in key roles, “The Shameless” forays into a dark, disturbing world of exploitation and misery in which two sex workers, one who bears the scars of her line of work, the other a young girl days away from ritual initiation, forge a bond and seek to throw off their shackles.<\/p>\n

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Bojanov, who has over two decades made countless trips to India, tells a universal story that is specifically Indian.<\/p>\n

“I did not intend ‘The Shameless’ to be a social document. I went in for abstractions of reality in piecing together the story,” he told this writer in the course of an interview ahead of the film’s world premiere.<\/p>\n

The making of “The Shameless”, said Bojanov, was interrupted several times owing to the Covid pandemic. The production also took its time because “financing it took forever”.<\/p>\n

He said there could not have been a better venue than Cannes to open the film to the world. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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