Bhavna Talwar
Zoya Akhtar To Gauri Shinde: 5 Contemporary Women Directors Who Are Here To Make A Difference
While women have actively joined the gender conversation in every walk of life, there continues to be a dismaying paucity of women directors all over the world. In India after Aparna Sen , there was no significant female filmmaker until Nandita Das arrived with Firaaq in 2008. Happily there are women in the millennium making a name as filmmakers in what is clearly a man’s world. Here are my favourites. 1. Zoya Akhtar: Perhaps the single-most influential female director since Aparna Sen and certainly the most prolific. Her oeuvre so far | Click Here...
Review of ZEE5 series Happi: Saluting Chaplin, Happi is Pankaj Kapoor’s finest performance
Happi(ZEE5) Starring Pankaj Kapoor and Chotu Directed by Bhavna Talwar Rating: *** ½ (three and a half stars) Okay, we forgive ZEE5, all its trespasses of excesses. By rescuing director Bhavna Talwar’s exquisite black-and-white homage to the great Charlie Chaplin, ZEE5 has shown us what the streaming platform should actually be used for. A film like Happi comes once in a blue moon. It is a daringly unconventional film and not the least unexpected from the very talented director Bhavna Talvar whose Dharm in 2007 featured Pankaj Kapoor in yet another | Click Here...