Pan-Indian actress Pooja Hegde is living the dream — and hoping to inspire young Indian girls to dream big. Invited to represent her homeland at the Cannes Film Festival where India is the country of honor this year, Hegde stopped by Deadline’s Cannes Studio this week .
The versatile rising star, who works across Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies has a number of hit credits to her name and is currently shootingHegde also has a lot more stories to tell, as she relayed to us, saying “I want to do more films for women because I genuinely think that we are not as represented enough.
Indian films have increasingly seen great box office success on a global stage, including the recent hitsCiting Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho, Hegde told us, “I think that it’s time we stop looking at languages as a barrier; it’s like the director ofsaid at the Oscars that if we get over that one-inch barrier of a subtitle we would be privy to such amazing content across the world, and across India.”
India, she noted, is “so culturally diverse and so culturally rich as a country, and I think film is a way to make us understand other people in a much more insightful way and personal way… We have it in us we just need to continue to tell our stories the way we want them to be told.” Aero is the official sponsor of the Deadline Studio at Cannes Film Festival, sponsors are Soia & Kyo and Jamones Iberico from Spain: Ambassadors of Europe in the World
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