Cannes Timeline: From Chetan Anand To Payal Kapadia - A Glorious Run By Indian Filmmakers
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Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagarwon the then highest award, Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, in the festival's inaugural year, 1946
India's association with the Cannes Film Festival is as old as the world's most anticipated showcase of global cinema, whose 77th edition will open in the French Riviera on Tuesday.
It began with Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar winning the then highest award, Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, in the festival's inaugural year -- 1946. The gritty film shared the honour with David Lean's Brief Encounters.
A little more than half a decade later, V. Shantaram's Amar Bhoopali (1952), a Marathi biopic on a poet and musician Honaji Balai in the early 19th century, and Raj Kapoor's classic Awaara (1953) were nominated for the Grand Prix, but could not get the coveted prize; Shantaram's film, however, won an award for best sound recording.
