Payal Kapadia opens up about her Mumbai trilogy at Cannes 2025: ‘Metropolis is filled with contradictions’
Might 13, 2025 09:50 PM IST
On the Cannes Movie Pageant in France, filmmaker Payal Kapadia opened up in regards to the movies she has deliberate after All We Think about As Gentle.
Filmmaker Payal Kapadia spoke to the press in France about returning to the Cannes Movie Pageant as a jury member after her movie All We Think about As Gentle grew to become the primary Indian movie to win the Grand Prix award final yr. She spoke about why her subsequent movies are additionally set in Mumbai, very similar to her final. (Additionally Learn: Halle Berry says this about feminine James Bond; talks about altering Cannes outfit final minute attributable to gown code)
Payal Kapadia on her Mumbai trilogy
Payal thanked the press for lending her movie All We Think about As Gentle visibility final yr and stated, “Our movie coming to Cannes and getting the popularity, and all of you (press) writing about it, actually helped us to get the movie out. And, even the distribution in India was actually helped by that. So, I’m actually grateful. One factor as a filmmaker is that your movie must be watched by your personal nation and in every single place else. So, that was a very huge bonus for me.”
She then spoke about her upcoming movies, two movies which are additionally set in Mumbai and comply with All We Think about As Gentle, stating, “I’m proper now engaged on two extra movies primarily based on my metropolis, which is Mumbai. So, to have like a trilogy however with completely different characters. It’s a metropolis that’s complicated and filled with contradictions. There’s quite a bit for me to discover nonetheless, and I have to get that out earlier than I transfer on to the rest.”
Payal Kapadia at Cannes
All We Think about As Gentle made waves on the Cannes Movie Pageant final yr when it received the Grand Prix award. The movie that includes Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi languages starred Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam and Hridhu Haroon. The Indian-French manufacturing advised the story of two Malayali ladies navigating life, love and loss in Mumbai.
Payal appeared for a photocall on Tuesday alongside Cannes jury president and French cinema star Juliette Binoche, American actor and filmmaker Halle Berry, Italian actor Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan author Leila Slimani, Congolese director-producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and American actor Jeremy Robust.
