New Delhi: History was created as Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine As Light’ received on the prestigious Grand Prix on the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Payal was current with the forged together with Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam on the awards ceremony held on the final day of the Cannes 2024 competition. But do you know, this isn’t the primary time India has received this title!
The first iteration of the Cannes Film Festival, deliberate for 1939, was scuppered when Germany invaded Poland to set off the beginning of World War II. Later when the competition lastly bought off the bottom in 1946, Indian cinema got here out swinging. In the spirit of post-war peace and reconciliation, the competitors jury handed the highest prize, then the Grand Prix, to movies from 11 of the 18 international locations represented that 12 months, together with India.
Chetan Anand’s social-realist drama Neecha Nagar received the Grand Prix and, for a decade not less than, the nation was an everyday fixture in Competition. The movie that put India on the map in Cannes was the debut function by director Satyajit Ray, whose movie Pather Panchali received the one-off honor of Best Human Document.
India has lastly damaged its 30-year hiatus with Mumbai-based filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s formidable fiction function debut All We Imagine As Light. Shot over 25 late summer time days in Mumbai, adopted by an additional 15 within the wet western port city of Ratnagiri, the Malayalam-Hindi language function tells the story of two younger ladies — Prabha, a nurse from Mumbai, and Anu, her roommate. The movie bagged the award, which is the second-most prestigious prize of the competition after the Palme d’Or, throughout the closing ceremony of the 77th version.
The important competitors jury was chaired by filmmaker Greta Gerwig and likewise included Spanish director 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.
