Deepika Padukone is now on Cannes Film Festival jury

Agencies 

Mumbai, Apr. 28: Deepika Padukone has been named a member of the jury at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. 

French actor Vincent Lindon will be the president of the jury of the 75th Cannes Film Festival. 

Joining him on the jury along with Deepika are actor-director Rebecca Hall,  Noomi Rapace and Italian actor-director Jasmine Trinca, as well as directors Asghar Farhadi, Ladj Ly, Jeff Nichols and Joachim Trier. 

The jury will announce this year’s winners at a gala ceremony in Cannes on May 28.

Actor Deepika Padukone will be part of the main jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Beginning her movie career with a Kannada work, Aishwarya, in which she played the titular character, she hit the limelight with the Shah Rukh Khan starrer, Om Shanti Om in 2007 that fetched her a Filmfare Award. Later, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Bajirao Mastani, Padmaavat and Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela as well as Piku with the late Irrfan Khan and Amitabh Bachchan firmed up her position in the Hindi cinema. She also acted in the Hollywood production, XXX: Return of Xander Cage.

Some of the films that will be screened at the prestigious festival include David Cronenberg’s dystopian sci-fi drama Crimes of the Future, starring Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart and Viggo Mortensen; the mystery thriller Decision to Leave from South Korean director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy); and Showing Up from First Cow filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, which stars Michelle Williams. Meanwhile, previous Palme D’or winners including Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ruben Östlund are back in competition.