Jury 2009

Sharmila Tagore

The Indian actress Sharmila Tagore will complete the Jury of the Competition, presided by Isabelle Huppert.

Sharmila Tagore started acting as a child in 1959, in the film Apu, directed by Satyajit Ray with whom she would shoot for other films, among which the Goddess, in competition at Cannes.

Star of the hindi cinema, she works with both auteur filmmakers and popular films produced in Mumbai. Sharmila Tagore is also the great-granddaughter of the Indian poet Rabîndranâth Tagore.

 

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