‘If India is proud of her…’

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has taken a jibe at PM Narendra Modi after he lauded filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s win at the Cannes Film Festival Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he hailed director Payal Kapadia for winning the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival,…

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Meet Payal Kapadia, Indian Cannes Grand Prix winner, who protested against FTII, faced disciplinary action; then…

Payal Kapadia, who became the first Indian to win the Grand Prix award, once led a major protest at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) against the appointment of actor-turned-politician Gajendra Chauhan as chairman. Filmmaker Payal Kapadia made India proud as she created history by becoming the first Indian to win the Grand…

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Meet Indian doctor-turned-filmmaker at Cannes, had no financial backing, upset family by leaving medicine, studied at…

A doctor who quit medicine to join FTII is now making India proud at Cannes Film Festival Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) student Chidananda S Naik’s 16-minute short fiction film, Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know…, premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday afternoon. The Kannada-language film, based on a…

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Meet only Indian actress whose film is competing for top prize at Cannes; not Aishwarya, Deepika, Kiara, Priyanka, Alia

All We Imagine As Light is an Indian film competing for Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It stars Kani Kusruti and Divya Prabha in the lead alongside Chhaya Kadam The Cannes Film Festival is underway currently. Generally regarded as the most prestigious and certainly the most popular film festival in the world, it…

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