Award-winning documentary filmmaker Haya Fatima Iqbal and the art of invisibility
Academy and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Haya Fatima Iqbal is using her camera to highlight untold stories and unseen perspectives.
Category: Films
Alankrita Shrivastava’s ‘Bombay Begums’ and the radical view that women are people too
Highly-anticipated Netflix show Bombay Begums directed by Alankrita Shrivastava just released on Women’s Day. Here’s the first look!
Sai Paranjpye, maker of 1980s’ cult classic Chashme Buddoor, on Bollywood memories and a creative life
Book review of legendary Bollywood film director and screenwriter Sai Paranjpye’s autobiography ‘A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life’
“Make films you believe in; the audience will come” – award-winning filmmaker Mehreen Jabbar
Acclaimed New York-based filmmaker Mehreen Jabbar on storytelling, female role models and Indo-Pak cinema collaborations
“Things have begun to converge, paradoxically, between India and Pakistan” – award-winning filmmaker Sabiha Sumar
Multiple award-winning filmmaker and Sundance alumnus Sabiha Sumar spoke to eShe’s Aekta Kapoor at eShe Indo-Pak Peace Summit Led by Women.
“Borders are there but stories can bridge the gap” – cinema’s powerwomen at eShe Peace Summit
Full report on what powerful women directors and producers from India and Pakistan had to say at eShe Indo-Pak Peace Summit Led by Women
‘The Great Indian Kitchen’: a necessary dialogue on ridiculous patriarchal norms in marriage
It’s not so often that a movie shakes a society from its siesta and makes people uncomfortable. That’s precisely what ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ has done to Kerala.
‘Misbehaviour’: five rebels, a beauty pageant and a women’s revolution
Philippa Lowthorpe’s new film ‘Misbehaviour’ looks at the 1970 disruption of the Miss World contest in London by a group of feminists.
‘The Last Color’: widowhood, womanhood and an unlikely friendship in Benaras
Vikas Khanna’s new film ‘The Last Color’ offers a compassionate view into the lives of widows in India with a superlative performance by lead actor Neena Gupta.
The problematic compliance of women: from ‘A Suitable Boy’ to a student’s suicide
The obedience of women may make for suitably happy endings in Indian fairytales but has fatal consequences in real life.
“The biggest lesson in acting is listening” – RejctX actor Anisha Victor
Though she is now a familiar face for web series RejctX viewers, Anisha Victor has had her fair share of challenges in the film industry. She shares her journey and lessons learnt.
Not the Kardashians but entertaining enough: ‘Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives’ review
‘Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives’, a new entertaining reality show on Netflix, follows the shallow, glamorous lives of four spouses of Bollywood actors.
Spotted by a film director: How Praneeta Patnaik went from student to stardom
Vishakhapatnam girl Praneeta Patnaik got a break in the Telugu film industry by chance, but now she’s diligently working her way upward.
Actor Sheena Chohan’s podcast is bringing Bollywood together for human rights
Actor and activist Sheena Chohan is bringing together 30 Bollywood personalities to create awareness about UN’s 30 human rights in a new podcast series.
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