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Aparna Sen To Nandita Roy: 5 Bengali Woman Filmmakers You Must Know
Aparna Sen To Nandita Roy: Three cheers for the Bengali Woman Filmmaker who held the director’s chair and never let it go!
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Interview: Shefali Shah On Donning The Director’s Hat With Happy Birthday Mummy Ji
 Happy Birthday Mummy Ji is a short film which narrates the tale of a woman caught up in the routine of life, duties responsibilities and relationships and is set for release on 23rd July 2021.
Silver Screen Connects To Our Reality: Filmmaker Roopa Rao
Roopa Rao grew up in a small town called Kolar for the first 12 years of her life, later her family moved to Bengaluru, but she admits that she is yet to become a city girl. Cycling in the fields, climbing the rocky hills, playing in the eucalyptus groves have molded a solid foundation for […]
Objectifying Women Started in Hindi Films Right from the Word Go: Aahana Kumra
Aahana Kumra plays a beautician in the film Lipstick Under My Burkha, a woman who feels stifled in her small town existence and wants much more out of life. She’s a fearless fiery woman who won’t settle for a life that her mother wants for her. In the trailer she’s seen having an affair with […]
Lipstick Under My Burkha Plays In Los Angeles This Week
Indian filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava’s feminist film ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ is unstoppable in winning hearts all over the world. Now it’s time for double celebration as Shrivastava’s film opens the 15th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
The Female Gaze Makes CBFC Uncomfortable: Alankrita Shrivastava
Despite being denied a Censor Board certificate, filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava’s feminist film Lipstick Under My Burkha has been winning laurels in the film fraternity. “I feel if the intention of the board is to discourage people like me for making films like these, then they’ve failed. I am not going to change the kind of films I want to make. […]
Lipstick Under My Burkha Wins Grand Jury Prize At Films De Femmes
Lipstick Under My Burkha has won the Grand Jury Prize At Films De Femmes held in France. Â “This one is super special,” tweeted Alankrita Srivastav, the Director of the film which has been banned in India by the censor board for being too ‘lady oriented.’ Irony of ironies. Grand Jury Prize at @fiffemmes that #lipstickundermyburkha […]
Farah Khan: “Why should women directors be pigeonholed into one thing?”
Farah Khan is probably the only female mainstream commercial movie director in India. She has her critics, and her film stories (or a lack of them) aren’t always appreciated by the audience. Yet, she is perhaps the most successful woman director in the country today. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Khan talks about […]
