Payal Kapadia praises Chhaya Kadam for her brilliant performance and improvisational flair in 'All We Imagine As Light'.

Chhaya Kadam is a phenomenal performer, and boasts of a diverse filmography that cuts across the audience. She has done 'All We Imagine As Light', 'Fandry', a commercial potboiler comedy like 'Madgaon Express', 'Andhadhun', India's Oscar entry 'Laapataa Ladies' and others.

For Chhaya Kadam, director Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light gave her that role. The actor was so enamoured by the character of Parvaty that she pitched hard for it. “At one point, I thought the role shouldn’t go to any other actor.

Kapadia’s first fully narrative film, “All We Imagine as Light,” begins more like a documentary, surveying Mumbai, particularly at night, before gently gravitating toward three women, all of them hospital workers, who are juggling their workaday realities, and those of India’s stratified society, with their own aspirations.

Kapadia won the Grand Prix at Cannes 2024 for her film about three women and their uneasy relationships with men and the city they call home.

O n May 26, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated filmmaker Payal Kapadia on the Cannes success of All We Imagine as Light, her drama slated for U.S. release on Nov. 15. Not only was it the first Indian film to play in competition at Cannes in 30 years,