Indian art-house cinema is flourishing, showing a different side to the Indian movie industry best known for its glossy Bollywood films.
Twelve months ago, her sensitive, subtle, dreamy film about three women hospital workers in Mumbai became the first Indian drama selected for the Cannes Film Festivalโs main competition in 30 years.
It won the Grand Prix, the festivalโs second-most prestigious prize after the Palme dโOrand.
All We Imagine as Light was not the only Indian film to feature at Cannes in 2024. It was joined by Karan Kandhariโs droll British-funded marital comedy Sister Midnight, which stars Radhika Apte as a new wife in a Mumbai slum who undergoes an unusual transformation.
Beside these two films, Santosh โ Sandhya Suriโs British-Indian crime yarn starring Shahana Goswami as a widow who inherits her husbandโs job as a police constable in rural India โ and The Shameless, a romantic crime tale that won Anasuya Sengupta the best actress prize in the festivalโs Un Certain Regard strand, also featured.