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Anasuya Sengupta on Her Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Actress Triumph: ‘I Went for a Film Festival and Came Back the Darling of the Nation’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Cannes 2024 was a life-changing journey for Anasuya Sengupta who won best actress at the festival's Un Certain Regard strand for 'The Shameless.'
Sengupta made her acting debut alongside several of her friends in Anjan Dutt’s music-themed “Madly Bangali” (2009) and served as director’s assistant to Claire McCarthy in Australian production “The Waiting City” the same year. In “The Shameless” Sengupta plays protagonist Renuka who escapes from a Delhi brothel after killing a policeman, seeks refuge in a community of sex workers in a small town in northern India and develops a forbidden romance with Devika (Omara), a young girl condemned to a life of prostitution. The Variety review of “The Shameless” praises Sengupta’s turn as “an impeccably, self-assured performance, rife with enrapturing nuances that create a liberating sense of queer Indian femininity seldom depicted on screen.”
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