Hrithik Roshan at Cannes | Hrithik Barbara Mori at Cannes Film Festival 2009

Hrithik Roshan at Cannes | Hrithik Barbara Mori at Cannes Film Festival 2009

Hrithik  Roshan is heading for Cannes with his  first  international project Kites later this week  .

Father Rakesh Roshan and  director Anurag Basu will accompany the film's leading man.

Barbara Mori will also be joining Hrithik in Cannes.

Rakesh Roshan who is frantically working to complete all the details took time off to proudly confirm the  rendezvous at Cannes.

"Yes Hrithik, Anurag, representatives from Big Pictures and I will be in Cannes later this week.Barbarba Mori will  be joining us from Mexico.We'll be screening a specially-prepared trailer of Kites on 15th. Then on 16 May we'll screen  the  film at Cannes for  internantional  buyers."

So far all of Rakesh Roshan's productions have been  very desi in their appeal. Kites  is  being  taken to an international audience. And Cannes is  the first stop, therefore very important.

Says Rakesh, "We  hope  to pitch Kites as  our production house's first  truly international  product. Cannes is a very important venue  for international cinema. That's why we've made  sure to  complete  the film in  time although Anurag Basu and I  have been working against time to do do. But we've managed."

Miraculously  Rakesh Roshan and Big Pictures have  been able to circumvent the current  producers-multiplex deadlock   to take Kites to Cannes.

Defends Rakesh Roshan, "Why should  the  strike in the mutiplexes affect  our visit to Cannes? We aren't  breaking  any  of   conditions  laid down during the strike. We're not screening  our film publicly or for the media at Cannes. This is a  screening only for potential buyers from the West."

The Kites team leaves for Cannes reaches Cannes  on May 14 and leaves on the morning of May 17.They'll be staying at The Martinez in Cannes.