Actress Anasuya Sengupta Creates History At The Cannes Film Festival

Cannes, May 25 - Actress Anasuya Sengupta has created history by becoming the first Indian to win the Best Actress award at the Un Certain Regard segment of the Cannes Film Festival.

Sengupta received the prestigious award for her role in the film Shameless directed and written by Bulgarian filmmaker Constantin Bojanov. The film portrays the journey of a sex worker who escapes from a brothel in Delhi after stabbing a policeman.



"You don’t have to be queer to fight for equality, you don’t have to be colonised to understand that colonising is pathetic — we just need to be very, very decent human beings", Sengupta said in her acceptance speech (via India Today).

Anasuya is recognised primarily for her work as a production designer in Mumbai and her work includes set design of the Netflix show Masaba Masaba. She made her acting debut in Bengali director Anjan Dutt's rock musical Madly Bangalee (2009) in a supporting role.

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