Bollywood heads for Cannes Film Market

MUMBAI: Forthcoming Bollywood movies like 'Kambakkht Ishq', 'Aladin', 'Kites' and 'What's your Rashee' are among the prominent ones to be showcased at the Cannes Film Market when the prestigious film festival gets under way from May 13.

Eros is promoting Sajid Nadiadwala's 'Kambakkht Ishq', Amitabh Bachchan starrer 'Aladin' and Saif Ali Khan's first home production 'Love Aajkal'.

All three films are Eros co-productions and the company is distributing them worldwide.

Kareena Kapoor and Akshay Kumar along with a host of Hollywood stars like Sylvester Stallone, Brandon Routh, Denise Richards are are starring in 'Kambakkht Ishq'.

UTV Motion Pictures will unveil its slate for 2009-10 to international distributors. 'What's Your Rashee' directed by Ashutosh Gowariker with Priyanka Chopra and Harman Baweja in lead roles is a romantic comedy.

'Kaminey' directed by Vishal Bharadwaj starring Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapur, 'Rajneeti' directed by Prakash Jha, Dharma Productions', Ayan Mukherjee's 'Wake up Sid' starring Ranbir Kapoor and Konkana Sen Sharma and Rensil D'Silva's untitled venture with Kareena and Saif will be showcased at the Film Market.

Other UTV films include 'Arjun - The Warrior Prince' directed by Arnab Chaudhari, 'Alibaba and the 41 thieves' directed by Soumitra Ranade.