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Anasuya Sengupta's big win at the Cannes Film Festival this year made the entire nation proud. She got the Best Actress award for The Shameless under the Un Certain Regard segment of Cannes. The actress felt it was not a personal achievement but it was for the whole country. Anasuya took pride in Payal's (Payal Kapadia) win over herself. She also believed that everybody was happy around her seeing her achievements. 

In an interview with PTI, Anasuya Sengupta said “I still don't have the right word for it. Maybe like the following Friday, I will know the exact word... Everyone feels a sense of pride in my moment of pride and it just elevates that. So it's really not a personal achievement for me... To do it with an entire country, it feels great.”

She continued, “We were a group of 15-20 people, maybe less. But it felt like we were representing a bigger feeling because that bigger feeling is there in our country. There's a sense of everybody feeling happiness in my happiness.”

“I am more proud of Payal's win than I am of mine. And I know she and her entire team feel the same way about me and my team... For the rest of the world to see us there together, in support of each other, doing good work, getting recognised, I feel even more happy for that,” she added.

Payal Kapadia got the Grand Prix award for All We Imagine As Light at the Cannes Film Festival. 

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Notably, The Shameless premiered at Cannes on 17th May. The movie revolves around the world of exploitation when a girl named Renuka (played by Anasuya) runs away from a brothel in Delhi after killing a police officer.  It stars Mita Vashisht, Auroshikha Dey, Tanmay Dhanania, Rohit Kokate, Prakash Ghimire and Omara Shetty in key roles. The Shameless has been directed by Bulgarian filmmaker Konstantin Bojanov.