Entertainment

The Cannes Film Festival (or at least the recent one) and the most stunning female actors from Bollywood walking the red carpet at the French Riviera instantly spring to mind for the majority of Indians. However, 2024 was a little different. Of course, the seasoned Aishwarya Rai Bachchan turned attention, as did the rookie Kiara Advani, Aditi Rao Hydari, Preity Zinta—who was making her 17th consecutive Cannes appearance—and Jacqueliene Fernandez, to name a few. However, when South Asian cinema made a major impression at the 77th edition of Cannes, it was women directors, storytellers, and actors who were leading the charge. Thus, when Payal Kapadia's film, All We Imagine As Light, became the winner at Cannes after a 30-year drought,