Preity Zinta shimmers in white on her first appearance at 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Preity Zinta at Cannes 2024
Look who is back at Cannes! Bollywood star Preity Zinta shimmered in a pearl white gown on her first day at the festival. Preity is part of the Indian contingent this year at the festival.
A video of Preity gearing up to walk the red carpet surfaced on social media on Friday. In the video, Preity posed for a boomerang, wearing a shimmery pearl white gown. She complemented the look with pearl earrings and hair tied behind her back. She struck a pose on the riverside.
What's Preity doing at Cannes?
The actor is at the Cannes Film Festival to present the Pierre Angenieux ExcelLens in Cinematography honour to veteran cinematographer Santosh Sivan. She did her first film, Mani Ratnam's romantic drama Dil Se (1998), with Santosh as the cinematographer. She's now reunited with him for her first film in seven years, Rajkumar Santoshi's upcoming period drama Lahore 1947.
In an interview with DD India from the Cannes Film Festival, Preity recalled how Santosh's genius work made her look good in Dil Se despite Mani Ratnam asking her to sport a no-makeup look. She also recalled how he pampered her during the shoot of the song Jiya Jale.
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“While we were shooting in Kerala, the song had a little light rain. You don't really see the rain, but it was there. So in the four days there, my bones were hurting in the rain, I had fever, I wasn't feeling well. Santosh came and got me rasam and all the food, and said, ‘Why don’t you eat this? It's hot.' He was really sweet and took care of me,” said Preity.
Preity made her Cannes debut in 2006. She attended the premiers of The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Paris, Je T'aime. She returned to the festival in 2013 as the brand ambassador of the luxury watch brand, Chopard.
