Driver steers Cannes duo to world sales

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Sales News

French sales agency Elle Driver has picked up international sales rights to two of the three Indian films at the Cannes Film Festival.

It is handling world sales on Directors' Fortnight-bound two-parter Gangs of वासेपुर (Wasseypur), directed by Anurag KASHYAP and Vasan Bala's Peddlers Halaahal, which screens in the International Critics' Week. Both films are produced by Anurag Kashyap Productions Pvt Ltd.

Wasseypur tells a story of vengeance between two families that spans more than 60 years and is set among the coal mining and scrap trade mafia of Wasseypur, a place obsessed with mainstream 'Bollywood' cinema.

Peddlers follows the intersecting lives of three social outcasts in Mumbai. They are a narcotics control bureau officer who is forced to live a lie; a terminally ill Bangladeshi immigrant who has come to Mumbai to work as a drug mule; and a young boy whose mistaken notions of rebellion and freedom have driven him from his upper middle-class home into Mumbai's dark and dangerous underbelly.

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