Kennedy: Anurag Kashyap’s Movie IMPRESSES Maverick Directors At The Special Screening; Check Out The Reactions

Kennedy, directed by Anurag Kashyap, has been in the headlines for a variety of reasons since its announcement. The teaser and posters were favourably received by audiences and generated positive buzz among moviegoers and the film made an impression at the renowned Cannes Film Festival, where Anurag Kashyap's neo noir thriller Kennedy received a seven-minute standing ovation from the audience.

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The makers kept a screening of the film in Mumbai on May 30th, which was attended by notable filmmakers and actors from the industry included Manoj Bajpayee, Vijay Varma, Shabana Azmi, Shekhar Kapur, Sudhir Mishra, Varun Grover, Neeraj Ghaywan, Shazia Iqbal, Piyush Mishra and Pavail Gulati while Sunny Leone hosted the screening on behalf of whole team.

The industry professionals who attended screenings of the Anurag Kashyap-directed movie gave it a favourable review.

While praising the film, director Sudhir who saw the film for the fourth time stated, “Brilliant film I mean. This is the 4th time I’m seeing it even liked it better this time you know fanatic. Kashyap when you see lot of other things than this. Because he has done so much, then you keep discovering things. But, anyway it’s very well done film it’s hold very well its gibs you and then slowly you understand when behind it some things also land. So this also and that , fantastic. He is one of my favourite film makers when i said this a long time ago 20 years ago i said that he is one of my inspirations. When they used to say I’m his supposedly his inspiration. So he is outstanding and great film.:.

Shekhar Kapur praised the film and said

,” I have never seen Anurag Kashyap’s film that hasn’t fascinated me. But this one works every otherwise it made me cry , it made me wonder , it kept me stressed out he does that anyway but, I really really enjoyed the film. Enjoy is very difficult word to use for the films that are sometimes gets so dark but it’s a fascinating film.”.

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Kennedy starring Rahul Bhat and Sunny Leone is written and directed by Anurag Kashyap. The film has been produced by Zee Studios and Ranjan Singh & Kabir Ahuja of Good Bad Films. The DOP of the film is Sylvester Fonseca. The music of the film is composed by Ashish Narula with Aamir Aziz & Boyblanck. The editing of the film is done by Tanya Chhabria and Deepak Kattar. The sound design of the film is done by Kunal Sharma and Dr. Akshay Indikar.