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Shekhar Kapur wins Best Director at the British National Awards for 'What's Love Got To Do With It"

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Ace filmmaker Shekhar Kapur earned the award for 'What's Love Got To Do With It' at the British National Awards.


Pritish Bagdi

Shekhar Kapur

Shekhar Kapur shared a post on his Instagram saying, "Thank you @nationalfilmawards for this very unexpected honor. But this award really belongs to 'Team What's Love.' For a director is merely a sum total of his/her team."

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith wrote the screenplay for the film. Emma, an actress, also appears in the film.

In this film, Shabana co-starred with British actor Lily James and Pakistani actor Sajal Aly. The film premiered last year at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival, where it got two standing ovations. Shabana, Lily, and Sajal attended the premiere and wowed the crowd.

The director's film was released in the United Kingdom, the United States, and India, and it garnered worldwide acclaim. The film won four of the nine categories in which it was nominated at the British National Awards earlier this week: best director, best British picture, best script, and best supporting actor.

Shekhar Kapoor Picture is now working on a sequel to his directorial debut, "Masoom." The movie is called 'Masoom... The New Generation.'
















R Madhavan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui led by I&B Minister Anurag Thakur attend Red Carpet Cannes 2022

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Festival de Cannes: The opening ceremony of the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival commenced on Tuesday as Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur led the star-studded Indian delegation on the Red Carpet at Palais des Festivals.


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The glamorous red carpet contingent along with the Union Minister included R Madhavan, Ricky Kej, Vani Tripathi, Prasoon Joshi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shekhar Kapur. While Madhavan and Nawazuddin opted for black tuxedos, Ricky, Prasoon and Anurag could be seen dressed in bandhgala suits of blue, black and cream colours respectively. Vani wore a beautiful blue saree and Shekhar donned a white kurta with a Nehru jacket.

Apart from these Nayanthara, Pooja Hegde, Tamannaah Bhatia and folk singer Mame Khan are also a part of the Indian delegation led by the Information and Broadcasting Minister. Actor Akshay Kumar too was part of the official delegation but had to opt-out after he tested positive for COVID-19. Earlier, Bollywood diva Deepika Padukone who is currently creating waves at Cannes Film Festival as a jury member attended the red carpet ceremony wearing a saree designed by Sabyasachi.

At the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival India has been named the 'Country of Honour' at the Marche du Film, the business counterpart of the marquee event.


2-Day ICCR Seminar on Indian Cinema and Soft Power in Mumbai on 3rd and 4th of May 2022

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 02: Renowned Film Director Shri Shekhar Kapoor will inaugurate the Seminar at Raj Bhavan


Pritish Bagdi

Pic Courtesy: Press Information Bureau, Mumbai


The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (lCCR) and FLAME University are organizing a two day seminar on Indian Cinema and Soft Power on 3rd and 4th of May 2022. Being held in Mumbai, the seminar aims to bring together practitioners and scholars of Indian cinema and international relations to deliberate, discuss and dwell upon the pertinent discourse in contemporary times.

Renowned film director Shri Shekhar Kapoor will be inaugurating the National Seminar on Indian Cinema and Soft Power. Maharashtra Governor Shri B S Koshyari and ICCR President Shri Vinay Sahasrabuddhe will also grace the inaugural function. Information and Broadcasting Minister, Shri Anurag Thakur is scheduled to deliver the valedictory session on 4 May at the Film Division, Mumbai.

The seminar will be chaired by eminent personalities and renowned experts like Subhash Ghai, Roopa Ganguly, Bharat Bala, Ambarish Mishra, Arunaraje Patil, Ashok Rane, Meenakshi Shedde, Manoj Muntashir, Paresh Rawal, and G P Vijay Kumar.

Cinema is a pivotal instrument of soft power. The seminar will deliberate and discuss the potential of Indian Cinema in movie making and policy design to further cultivate cultural sensitivities towards India and increase strategic engagement with the Indian diaspora. In the seminar, Scholars of Indian cinema and international relations will discuss themes such as cinematic colonialism, global influence of Indian cinematic music, regional cinema and its global influence, foreign audience and advanced technology.

The extensive reach of Indian Cinema has potential to cultivate a cultural sensitivity towards India. The rise of information technology coupled with the ever-expanding size of the Indian diaspora indicates that there is merit in mapping and understanding the influence of Indian Cinema abroad. Recent scholarly work has focused on the rising influence of cinema to build international appeal and influence audiences. The seminar is an opportunity to continue the discourse and develop a deeper understanding of the role of cinematic influences and its intricate connections to soft power.

The Seminar is scheduled to have the following sessions:

  1. Cinematic Colonialism: Global and Indian Cinema through Western Lens

  2. Indian Cinema as a Vehicle for Spreading Awareness about idea of India Abroad

  3. Global Influence of Indian Cinematic Music

  4. Regional Cinema and its Global Influence

  5. Indian Cinema's engagement with Foreign Audience and Advanced Technology


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