It seems all of last fortnight people have been very anxious about our cinema. Cannes seems to bring out this anxiety in ways that other major festivals such as Toronto and Berlin, which have actually taken the cinemas of India quite seriously for a long time, don’t.u00a0But then those other cinemas which have been at film festivals over the last few decades aren’t coming out of the Mumbai film industry-allied “indie” scene.u00a0

Illustration/ Amit Bandre