Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta’s Noor Inaayat Khan Biopic Is Now An American Film
Ketan Mehta, the bio-pic specialist(Sardar Patel, Mangal Pandey, Mountain Man) was planning a bio-pic on Noor Inaayat Khan , the daughter Hazrat Inaayat Khan who was Tipu Sultan’s great-grandson. Noor was a British spy during World War 2. Ketan Mehta was absolutely fascinated by Noor’s story. He had researched on her for four years and wanted to make the film with Katrina Kaif in the lead.But now an American film A call To Spy featuring Radhika Apte as Noor has beaten Ketan to the finishing line. Interestingly Radhika who has worked with Ketan Mehta in t | Click Here...
Lockdown Classics: Mirch Masala (1987)
Smita Patil died before she could see herself in Mirch Masala. Would she have placed it among her best works? She missed out on one of her most alluring performances in a film that refuses to age. What is it about Mirch Masala that is so tantalizing and engaging? Is it the congregation of these beautiful women in a Gujarati village, all strong and yet lorded over by the rules of a patriarchal society? 25 years after it was made Ketan Mehta’s Mirch Masala remains an enigmatic mesmeric parable on women’s rights. On the topmost level of perception it’s an excellent thriller | Click Here...