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"Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is to receive a special invitation to attend the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.  The actress has attended the world famous film festival for ten consecutive years both as an ambassador for L&amp;#039;Oreal and representing Indian cinema. India is the guest country at this year&amp;#039;s event in honour of the centenary of Bollywood. The French Ambassador to India, Francois Richier, told PTI: &amp;quot;The Cannes festival will have a special focus on Indian Cinema where we will invite Indian film stars.&amp;quot; The Raavan actress is highly regarded in France due to her long-running association with Cannes, and was last year awarded the &amp;#039;Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters&amp;#039;, the second highest French civilian honour, for her contribution to the arts. &amp;quot;She is very dear to our heart and we are very grateful to her,&amp;quot; added Richier. The 66th Cannes Film Festival will  open with a premiere of The Great Gatsby, which stars Aishwarya&amp;#039;s father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan as Meyer Wolfsheim.  Amitabh is confirmed to attend the Cannes premiere, along with Jay-Z who scored the movie. The 66th annual Cannes Film Festival takes place between May 16 and 23. Watch the trailer for The Great Gatsby below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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