early 45 years after she made her debut with national awardwinning director g aravindans thampu a documentarystyle film on a circus coming to a village the actress is thrilled that she will be at the films screening at the cannes film festivalits a pinchme moment says the veteran actress who is going to be accompanied by her daughter and actress devi as her plusone the past few days have been hectic and edgeofseat with trying to get all our paperwork done ammu devi and i are on cloud nine this came totally out of the blue because never in my dreams did i think that i would get the invitation to go to cannes for the screening of this movie we were not sure about sharing the news till we got our visas and tickets and now that it has all fallen into place we are excited to talk about itjalaja will be going with a small team that includes shivendra singh durgapur of the film heritage foundation which restored the film that is getting a red carpet screening in the cannes classics sectionthe team will arrive at cannes on may 19 when madhavans rocketry will premiere we have got the accreditation which is important to be able to view movies so we hope to go for this movie too she says adding that thampu will be screen on may 21jalaja says they are still trying to understand the systems such as the no phones rule at the festival so then i am wondering how we will get pictures taken while there anyway i have told my daughter that we have to see how things are there says jalaja laughing but theres been no curbing devis enthusiasm with charting out their costumes and other things shes been telling me that it is a high fashion moment ive decided to wear a sari and shes trying to scout out some interesting designer wear says jalaja