Sharmila Tagore, Uma Da Cunha on Cannes Juries news

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Sharmila Tagore, who has straddled the world of cinema as diverse as Ray and Bollywood, will serve on the Competition Jury of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.

She is the ninth member of the jury, and her name was announced separately today. The names of other eight members were announced earlier.

The festival in its announcement said "Tagore had started her career as a child in 1959, in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar in 1959, and that another Ray film starring her, Devi, was in the Cannes competition. Star of Hindi cinema, she works with both auteur filmmakers and popular films produced in Mumbai" the festival said in the announcement, also mentioning that she is the great-granddaughter of Rabindranath Tagore.

Incidentally, all the three Indian jury members in Cannes Competition this decade have been women. It was Aishwarya Rai in 2003 while in 2005, Nandita Das served in the jury.

The other members of this year's jury, headed by French actress Isabelle Huppert, are Italian actress-director Asia Argento, Turkish director-actor Nuri Bilge Ceylan, South Korean director Lee Chang-Dong American director-screenwriter James Gray, writer-screenwriter Hanif Kureishi from the UK, Taiwanese actress Shu Qi and American actress Robin Wright Penn.

Meanwhile, noted film critic and progammer Uma Da Cunha will be a member of the Un Certain Regard jury.