Sunny Leone gets emotional as Kennedy gets a seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival, tells Anurag Kashyap ‘You did it’. Watch

Anurag Kashyap's Kennedy, starring Rahul Bhat and Sunny Leone, received a seven-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.

Sunny Leone at the premiere of Anurag Kashyap's Kennedy in Cannes. (Photo: Festival de Cannes/YouTube)

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Director Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it received a seven-minute standing ovation from the audience at the Grand Lumiere Theatre. A video from the venue was shared by the YouTube channel of the festival. As the audience broke into an applause, the film’s stars, Rahul Bhat and Sunny Leone, got emotional, and Anurag had the biggest smile on his face. The team thanked everyone who was present. Sunny told Anurag, “You did it,” and said, “Yeah I’m not crying.”

Watch the Kennedy standing ovation video here:

The team hugged and congratulated each other. Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra was also present in the auditorium, and Anurag walked up to him and touched his feet. The two then shared a hug. Kennedy was inspired by a story that Sudhir had told Anurag many years ago.

Many photos and videos from the premiere were shared by attendees on social media.

#Kennedy, a police noir film, received a 7-minute standing ovation at The Grand Lumiere Theatre, #Cannes2023.

‘Kennedy’ follows the story of an insomniac cop who dwells in different circumstances while looking for redemption.#AnuragKashyap was joined at the festival with… pic.twitter.com/2ZeLbmlZ99

— Ashwani kumar (@BorntobeAshwani) May 25, 2023

Proud moment for Indians! #RahulBhat and #AnuragKashyap‘s film #Kennedy gets applauded at the premier of #CannesFilmFestival2023 with a 7 minute long standing ovation, actor gets all emotional watching the crowd appreciating his opening and closing scenes! This is their second… pic.twitter.com/33LPRx94zf

— Ramesh Bala (@rameshlaus) May 25, 2023

#Kennedy film dhoom at Cannes Film Festival France, Congratulations to my dear friend great actor Mr #RahulBhat and movie actress #SunnyLeone #CannesFilmFestival2023 #KennedyAtCannes #Cannes2033 @itsRahulBhat @SunnyLeone @ianuragthakur @DrSJaishankar pic.twitter.com/fptuGI3WSL

— Anand sahu (@AnandsahuIndia) May 25, 2023

Kennedy has Rahul playing the titular role of a murderous ex-cop, which Anurag had initially written for Chiyaan Vikram. The director told Film Companion that the film is called Kennedy because that’s Vikram’s name, but since he couldn’t get in touch with the actor, he cast Rahul in the role. Although, Vikram later tweeted that he did get in touch with the director later, but by that time, the film was only a month away from shooting and everything was locked. Rahul later told the publication that if he ever meets Vikram, he will thank the star for not being able to respond to Anurag in time.

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