Not Just Bollywood | Shekhar Kapur: ‘It’s getting really tough to make films these days’
Lachmi Deb Roy • 2 years agoIn an interview with Firtspost, Shekhar Kapur talks about the making of What’s Love Got To Do With It? with British script writer Jemima Khan, coming back to cinema after fourteen years and how it is getting difficult to make films unless and until it is something popular.
Shabana Azmi on being busy through the pandemic, experiments with OTT, future projects and more
Subhash • 3 years agoShabana Azmi on looking back at her career: "I was trained to look for truth in performance and have once in a while managed to achieve it when the script and the director are great"
Oscars 2021: Hollywood may earn brownie points for diversity, but still lags behind in celebrating Black women's musicality
• 4 years agoBoth Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The United States vs. Billie Holiday represent the singers more as victims of their social circumstances than virtuosos, obscuring contributions of two of the most influential American performers.
Tina Turner bids 'goodbye' to legions of fans with Berlin Film Festival documentary
• 4 years agoTina includes emotional interviews with the singer in which she recounts her childhood of grinding poverty picking cotton in the Tennessee fields, her singing debut with violent husband Ike Turner and her lonely years even as the world's top female rock star.
Shekhar Kapur wraps up filming Emma Thompson, Shabana Azmi-starrer What's Love Got To Do With It?
• 4 years agoThe film marks Kapur's return to feature-length directorial after his 2007 Cate Blanchett-starrer drama Elizabeth: The Golden Age.