Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta’s Noor Inaayat Khan Biopic Is Now An American Film
Ketan Mehta, the bio-pic specialist(Sardar Patel, Mangal Pandey, Mountain Man) was planning a bio-pic on Noor Inaayat Khan , the daughter Hazrat Inaayat Khan who was Tipu Sultan’s great-grandson. Noor was a British spy during World War 2. Ketan Mehta was absolutely fascinated by Noor’s story. He had researched on her for four years and wanted to make the film with Katrina Kaif in the lead.But now an American film A call To Spy featuring Radhika Apte as Noor has beaten Ketan to the finishing line. Interestingly Radhika who has worked with Ketan Mehta in t | Click Here...
Lockdown Classics: Mirch Masala (1987)
Smita Patil died before she could see herself in Mirch Masala. Would she have placed it among her best works? She missed out on one of her most alluring performances in a film that refuses to age. What is it about Mirch Masala that is so tantalizing and engaging? Is it the congregation of these beautiful women in a Gujarati village, all strong and yet lorded over by the rules of a patriarchal society? 25 years after it was made Ketan Mehta’s Mirch Masala remains an enigmatic mesmeric parable on women’s rights. On the topmost level of perception it’s an excellent thriller | Click Here...
ZEE5 launches ZEE5 Film Festival
ZEE5 - India’s largest multilingual digital entertainment destination announces the launch of the ZEE5 Film Festival. As part of the festival, 12 films – six from India and Pakistan each will be featured every Friday on a weekly basis starting 24th August 2018. Given the current global scenario, it is important to bring people together. This thought resonates with ZEE’s philosophy of Extraordinary Together that will redefine the boundaries of entertainment as we know it. The opening movie for the festival will be Toba Tek Singh, the Ketan Mehta directed and Pankaj Kapur, Vinay | Click Here...