Move over Aishwarya Rai and Mallika Sherawat. Now it is the turn of Anuj Saxena - Abhay Kapoor of Kkusum fame - to make waves in Cannes where he is

Getting the global eyeballs - Anuj Saxena at the French Riviera on Sunday

attending the MipTV festival - the world's largest audiovisual content market. With his week old stubble, he has been bowling over all the women at Cannes with his dark good looks and sharp business mind.

The actor who arrived in the French Riviera resort yesterday ate a quiet Indian meal for dinner last night at Shri Vishnu restaurant on Rue Georges Clemanceau with close friends. But he is not going to have his privacy for long.

The MipTV Daily News team has already interviewed him about his plans for Maverick Productions globally and it also conducted a photoshoot for the

Mixing business with pleasure - Anuj with Maverick Productions TV head Ashutosh Barve

publication. Tellychakkar.com has exclusive access to these pix. And what's more a Photocall - which has been done in the past for international celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Aishwarya Rai, in the past - has been planned for him for this Wednesday afternoon close to Hotel Majestic Beach. A gaggle of photographers are expected to attend and shoot him for several publications globally.

Saxena is flying the flag of Indian television high at Cannes just as Rai did at the film festival a couple of years ago. His fans would surely agree. Kudos to him for putting the Indian television fratenity on the international map just like Simone Singh did when she became the first Indian TV actress to present an award at the International Emmy Awards in New York two years ago.