The Bollywood showman is in Cannes with three of these acceptance - Chirag Arora, Vishnu Shyam (both directors) and assembly coordinator Aditi Anand.

Among the films that are getting buried actuality are Sarvesh Mewara's "News", which won an accolade at the endure Pune International Blur Festival, Chirag Arora's "Gir Gaya", champ of two prizes at the Asmita Blur Festival in Chennai, and "A Writer's Affair" directed by Vishnu Shyam.

As one would imagine, these nine films do accept asperous edges but they not alone alternate a advanced ambit of accurate styles and themes, they aswell reflect the auspicious abandon and alternation of youth.

"These abbreviate films are absolutely agitative pieces of cinema," says Ghai. "They represent the approaching of our cinema."

These films, he reveals, accept already travelled to assorted festivals. "We chose nine of the 20 films that the aboriginal accumulation of Whistling Woods acceptance accept fabricated carefully on the base of merit," he says.

He adds that while some agents of Whistling Woods provided logistical and abstruse abutment to these beginning filmmakers, these films were conceived and accomplished apart by the students.

"We did not get into the artistic action at all and accustomed them to analyze their account absolutely on their own," Ghai says.

Aditi Anand, assembly coordinator of a few of the nine films and a apprentice of Whistling Woods, reveals that somebody from the Cannes Abbreviate Blur Corner had apparent a blur from the convention and asked them to arch to the blur fest.

"It was she who appropriate that we should get our films to Cannes. That is why we are here," she says.

Ghai feels that today's bearing of adolescent filmmakers is abundant bigger placed than he was during his Blur and Television Convention of India (FTII) canicule to appear up with superior work.

"These youngsters accept far greater acknowledgment and the abandon to do what they want. They are chargeless to chase any academy of filmmaking - from Kurosawa to Manmohan Desai, from Godard to Satyajit Ray. They are, therefore, far added assured than we were four decades ago. There is no abashing in their minds," he says.