Two weeks before its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Anurag Kashyap released two new photos of Rahul Bhat and Sunny Leone in character as Kennedy. The film will be screened out of competition at the 76th edition of the Midnights Screening Section. Anurag shared the new pictures on Instagram as he started the countdown for the film. (Read also: Anurag Kashyap takes first look at Kennedy, Sunny Leone stuns in retro saree. I’m watching)
Rahul Bhat and Sunny Leone star in Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy.
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Tagging the film’s cast and crew, she wrote on Instagram, “2 weeks to go! #Kennedy’s Cannes countdown is on!” The first still features Rahul as Kennedy. He sits on a red leather couch and peels an apple while smoking. The next film is of Sunny Leone as Charlie character. She wears a black saree while sitting on a deck chair. Holding a drink in her hand, she appears to be looking off-camera at someone else.
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The director’s fans started asking for the trailer in the comments section. A fan shared, “Trailer maangta hai apun ko kuch toh footage do (We want the trailer please share some moments from the movie).” While others also wondered about releasing the film in India later. They asked, “#cannes ke baad kisi ott me? (After Cannes, on which streaming platform will it be released?)” Actor Abhilash Thapliyal added, “Yes, we Cannes…!” Kennedy also stars Mohit Takalkar, Abhilash and Megha Burman.
In a statement, Anurag shared, “I have lived with the character for a long time since I was writing for Sudhir Mishra and he was telling me stories of this crazy cop. Then years later, during the lockdown, a headline incident happened in Bombay and that sparked an idea and I took the cop from Sudhir Mishra’s stories and put it around that incident and Kennedy was born. It’s one of those things that comes to you suddenly and you write relentlessly until it’s fully formed. Then I was lucky to I found people who believed in it as much as I did, and it just happened.”
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Rahul plays an insomniac ex-cop who is presumed dead but still works within the corrupt system, trying to find redemption. Anurag wrote the script of the film during the lockdown. Kennedy was shot mostly at night in Mumbai over a period of 30 days. The film is produced by Zee Studios and Anurag’s Good Bad Films.
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