Sean Baker’s crowned with Palme d'Or
Double treat at Cannes as Payal and Anasuya bag awards
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rector Juan Antonio Bayona, Turkish actor-screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, American actor Lily Gladstone, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Lebanese actor-director Nadine Labaki and French stars Eva Green and French actor Omar Sy.
Ms. Sengupta, who starred in Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov’s Hindi movie The Shameless, is the ffrst Indian artist to win the top acting honour in the Un Certain Regard category.
In her speech on acceptance Friday night,
Ms. Sengupta dedicated the award to the “queer community and other marginalised communities” for bravely ffghting for their rights all over the world.
Fight for equality The Shameless.
“You don’t have to be queer to ffght for equality, you don’t have to be colonised to know that colonising is pathetic — we just need to be very, very decent human beings,” the actor said.
The win at Cannes is a landmark moment in Ms. Sengupta’s career. She earlier played a supporting part in the 2009 Bengali fflm directed by Anjan Dutt, and worked as a production designer after shifting to Mumbai.
The Shameless, which had its premiere at Cannes on May 17, forays into a dark, disturbing world of exploitation and misery in which two sex workers, one who bears the scars of her line of work, the other a young girl days away from ritual initiation, forge a bond and seek to throw ofl their shackles. Ms. Sengupta plays the central character of Renuka, who escapes from a Delhi brothel after stabbing a
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a raw, highly explicit and often hilarious story about a New York erotic dancer, was crowned with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. It confirmed its director Sean Baker as one of the leading voices of American indie cinema. policeman to death and takes refuge in a community of sex workers in northern India, where she meets Devika (Omara), a young girl condemned to a life of sex work.
The actor celebrated her win on Instagram, where she posted pictures with Un Certain Regard jury head, Canadian director Xavier Dolan, and GermanLuxembourg star Vicky Krieps. “I won, guys, held so lovingly by my heroes. I’m here for you, to be the one you need THANK YOU @festivaldecannes,” Ms. Sengupta wrote in the caption.