Actress Huma Qureshi hopes that brands and companies who spend huge amounts of money sending people who have nothing to do with films will now find a way to support small and independent films.
Huma’s comments come after Anasuya Sengupta became the first Indian actress to win the Best Actress award in the Un Certain Regard section and Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light won the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
The actress shared a photo of the ‘All We Imagine As Light’ team on her Instagram Stories, where they are being honoured with the Grand Prix, the second-highest award at the Cannes Film Festival.
“Proud of you all @payalkapadia @kantari_kanmani @divya_prabha @chhaya.kadam.75. Hopefully. Hopefully,” she captioned the photo.
Huma then wrote a post, which read: “Cannes Film Festival is a film festival where art is celebrated for art’s sake… I really hope some of these brands/companies who spend hundreds of dollars to send people who have nothing to do with films will now find a way to support small and independent films.”
“I’m really proud of all the extraordinary women who have achieved so much fame! More power to them and our homegrown storytellers,” she added.
