Posts by: Santosh Mehta

Santosh Mehta -May 18, 2018

Now that she is a mother, who better than Kareena Kapoor Khan to be Unicef’s celebrity advocate for breast-feeding? Kareena Kapoor was no doubt chosen as a celebrity advocate by Unicef as the actor has a massive follower base within the country, especially among adolescents and youth in the age group of 13-29 years. She […]

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Santosh Mehta -May 10, 2018

Sohaila Kapur says she’d love to direct a Bollywood film some day. She has already made a mark in theatre and played character roles under top directors Sohaila Kapur is a well-known writer, theatre director and actor. Besides, she happens to be late Dev Anand’s niece and sister of famous film-director Shekhar Kapur. She started […]

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Santosh Mehta -May 3, 2018

Utpal Borpujari is a bold film-maker who chose to take up the theme of witch-hunting in a remote Assamese village and is now getting the National Award for Best Assamese film Utpal Borpujari was a well-known media critic from Assam before he got into film direction. An MTech in Applied Geology from IIT-Roorkee, he won […]

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Santosh Mehta -April 6, 2018

After making bold films with a strongly feminist theme, Aruna Raje has penned her own life story, full of rich material that could inspire a film Aruna Raje Patil started her career as one of the first woman technicians in the Hindi film industryand went on to become a famous film-maker. She started out making […]

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Santosh Mehta -March 23, 2018

An interview with IAWRT Festival Director Aradhana Kohli Kapur This is the only festival of its kind in India. The Asian women’s film festival is organised every year by the International Association of Women in Radio & Television (IAWRT)-India chapter. The 14th edition has just concluded at the India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi, […]

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