Deepika Serving On 75th Cannes Film Festival Jury

MUMBAI: Actress Deepika Padukone, who recently made headlines as the only Indian on the 75th Cannes Film Festival jury, left Mumbai on Monday night heading towards the French Riviera.

Deepika, who represents India at the prestigious film gathering, has a busy two weeks ahead from May 16 to 28. She will be there throughout the festival.

Deepika, who was chosen to be icist and the writer, followed by the sessions to tune a song for the approval of the maker. Gone were those huge recording studios accommodating hundreds of musicians at a song recording, playing live as a song was crooned by a Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd Rafi, Kishore Kumar, or other singer. The studio has now shrunk to a car garage and a machine has replaced musicians!

The way music is made and marketed has changed for the worse. The music company collects a bank of recorded songs and decides slots in a film where to fit a song from its bank! The singer does not matter, nor do

Deepika Padukone. Pic: IANS

part of the exclusive and very illustrious jury for the 75th Festival De Cannes, is part of an eightmember jury presided by French actor Vincent Lindon.

She is joined by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, actress screenwriter producer Rebecca Hall, Italian actress Jasmine Trinca, French director Ladj Ly, American director Jeff Nichols and director Joachim Trier. the words of a song. There are no composers by whose name a film’s music would draw crowds.

Films have given us songs for every occasion and festival, be it a wedding, party, puja, birthday, Diwali, Christmas, Eid. Our wedding bands survive on these old songs. All our music-based television shows, in fact, thrive because of this collection of evergreen classics. Not much has been composed in many years that can be hummed. It is surprising therefore that these songs still garner millions of hits on YouTube!

The next to be compromised was the story/script, the very purpose of a film. A film had a story