18th May 2023,Mumbai: At the Cannes Film Festival, Vijay Varma is looking back on his ten years of filmmaking. The actor returned to the famous festival this year as a member of the Indian delegation after attending the premiere of his first movie, Monsoon Shootout, in 2013. Vijay claimed that because he wasn’t a well-known name in the industry during his red carpet debut at Cannes, none of the stylists wanted to dress him.
For his role in Dahaad on Prime Video, Vijay Varma recently won numerous awards. Vijay also went to the Berlin Film Festival in January of this year, where the Berlinale series section debuted the show. With Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy, in which he played the supporting role of Moeen, the actor gained notoriety.
The Dahaad star revealed how stylists turned him down when he made his red-carpet debut in 2013 in a recent interview with Film Companion at Cannes. He said, “When I came here, I bought one jacket from Zara, which I could afford. But for the main event, for two events, they said you have to wear the whole suit. And I went to people, saying, ‘Can some designer come, can some stylist help me out?’ And they said, ‘Who’s Vijay Varma? We don’t want to dress anybody.’”
Vijay also added how he somehow got a tuxedo for the event at the last minute. “So, a friend of mine gifted me a Zara suit, which I wore for the morning photo call. And somebody stitched me a tuxedo for the red carpet. That’s how I went. When I saw the pictures, they came out on Getty Images and all these places, which I didn’t have money to buy from,” he said. Vijay continued by saying that though this was his first time participating in such an event, he thought he looked fine. When he looked at those photos again, he claimed they reminded him of a “Marwari Johnny Depp.”
Along with Vijay, the Indian delegation at the Cannes Film Festival this year includes actors Esha Gupta, Kangabam Tomba, and Oscar-winning director Guneet Monga.
-by Kashvi Gala