Indie films bring fame to country but they don't get support: Nawazuddin Siddiqui

INDEPENDENT films and directors bring fame to India but they don't get enough support once they return home from festival rounds, says actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who believes that movies by Anurag Kashyap, Payal Kapadia, and Neeraj Ghaywan have done more to crack the international market than the big Bollywood projects.

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According to Siddiqui, indie filmmakers depict characters from the streets and corners of India and reach audiences beyond just the diaspora.

"A lot can happen if such (independent) films are supported. We dismiss them as festival films. They get limited release and the makers of such films don't get any support. But these are the films that bring fame to our country," the actor told PTI in an interview here.

His comments come days ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Ghaywan's "Homebound" in the Un Certain Regard section on May 21.

Siddiqui, who has travelled to Cannes with eight of his films including Kashyap's much-acclaimed "Gangs of Wasseypur", "The Lunchbox" by Ritesh Batra, and Aseem Ahluwalia's "Miss Lovely", worked with Ghaywan in the second season of web series "Sacred Games".