Shekhar Kapoor
Is Shekhar Kapoor Really 78?!
It is hard to believe Shekhar Kapur is 78 now. There is a quality of uninterrupted youthfulness about him. Shekhar is naturally friendly. He doesn’t have to make an effort to be gregarious. Like his uncle Dev Anand, he is curious about other people’s lives. He asks a million questions. He wants to know about what you read, what you eat,which are your favourite films,what you think of his rather slender oeuvre, do you like Mr India more than Masoom, how many times have you seen Bandit Queen, etc etc. In 1983 after a dodgy stint as an actor(Toote Khilone, Jaan Haaz | Click Here...
Shekhar Kapoor Remembers Peter Pereira
Cinematographer Peter Pereira who passed away on 10 January created magic on screen from behind the screen. He shot six of Manmohan Desai’s biggest blockbusters beginning with Sachcha Jhutha in 1970, followed by Aa Gale Lag Jaa, Amar Akbar Anthony , Desh Premee, Coolie, Mard . Manmohan Desai considered Peter to be indispensable to his cinema. “Amitabh, Laxmikant-Pyarelal and Peter are the three kingpins of my cinema. I would be lost without them.” Peter’s piece de resistance was Shekhar Kapoor’s Mr India in which Peter not only did the cinematog | Click Here...
Birthday Boy Shekhar Kapoor, Then & Now According To Shabana Azmi
Shekhar Kapoor turns 77 today. He started his career as an actor,and his costar in Toote Khilone and Ishq Ishq Ishq was Shabana Azmi. When Shekhar turned director with the landmark of a film Masoom in 1983, Shabana played the leading lady. Now 39 years later Shabana plays one of the leads in Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got To Do With It. Who better equipped to speak on Shekhar? Over to the unmatchable Shabana. “When I did Masoom with Shekhar, he used to love his actors.He continues to do so .He doesn’t impose , he creates the space in which creativit | Click Here...
Flashback: I Haven’t Seen Mr India With The Audience – Shekhar Kapoor
35 years since Mr India was released. How does it feel? Well, you know on Twitter when we’ve Mr India the traffic has to be blocked because it gets so huge.People tweet the dialogues! For me as a director the most overpowering film I made was Bandit Queen. But it’s Mr India I am most known for in India.No doubt about that. And it has grown in popularity over time.When we made it we wanted to make sure that the audience remained glued to the seats for two and a half hours.To keep that momentum for so long was tough.Even when the kids in the film were eating th | Click Here...
Deepika Padukone To Pooja Hegde: Indian Celebrities First Look From France For Cannes 2022
The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has begun and photos are here. Cannes is not just about celebrating the art of cinema but also about witnessing high fashion on the red carpet. But this time it's different, as the prestigious festival is honouring Indian cinema and India has been selected as the first ‘country of honour’ at Marche du Cinema. On the opening day of the Cannes 2022, a delegation of Indian stars led by Union Minister Anurag Thakur, including celebrities like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Pooja Hegde, Urvashi Rautela, Deepika Padukone, Tamannaah Bhatia, AR Rehma | Click Here...