Preity Zinta Drops Unseen Photos From Cannes Film Festival, Pics Inside

Taking to Instagram, the actor praised veteran cinematographer Santosh Sivan and called him a mad genius.

The Bollywood actor posed with Santosh on the red carpet at Cannes.

She was also seen presenting the prestigious Pierre Angenieux ExcelLens in Cinematography to Santosh.

Preity captioned the post, It was an absolute honour to present the prestigious Pierre Angenieux Award 2024 to the first Asian, the brilliant & super talented cinematographer Santosh Sivan ASC, ICS at the Cannes Film Festival.

Preity and Santosh first collaborated on Mani Ratnam's 1998 romantic drama Dil Se.

On the work front, the actor will be next seen in Sunny Deol-starrer Lahore 1947.

Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, Lahore 1947 was officially announced last October.