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Kashish Mumbai International queer film fest hosted a panel discussion today at Liberty cinema. The topic of the discussion was   Freedom of Expression & Censorship in Indian cinema. The panelists included eminent personalities like Nandita Das, Onir, Apurva Asrani and Sridhar Rangayan. Meenakshi Shedde was the moderator for the discussion.  Indian cinema in 2013 celebrated a centenary of films, but issues of censorship & barriers in freedom of expression continue to dog the industry. The problems become more immediate for films that challenge social norms, question traditional practices or rock the status quo. While on one hand, the censor board is still mired in antiquated rules and places hurdles on films that deal with contentious issues, on the other hand distribution & marketing machinery questions the judiciousness in investing in such films. Do these hamper artistic freedom and where does one draw the line for artistic license? How...

Nandita Das, Manav Kaul and Saurabh Shukla let go off their fee for the remake of the cult film Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai. In Return the director Soumitra Ranade makes them partners on the film Mumbai, September 23, 2015:  Nandita Das, Manav Kaul and Saurabh Shukla, who play the lead roles in the remake of the cult film Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai, did not charge a penny as remuneration. Since it’s an independent film directed and produced by Soumitra Ranade (who directed Jajantaram Mamantaram and wrote Goopy Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya) there were budget constraints. The actors fell in love with the script and offered to work for free. Touched by their gesture, Soumitra has made them partners on the project and will be sharing the box office profit with the three actors once the film is released. The film is raising 30 lakhs through a two-month long crowdfunding campaign on Wishberry which will cease on October 2. The campaign started on Aug 3...

NANDITA DAS, ACCLAIMED INDIAN ACTRESS AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST, IN PERSON FOR SCREENING OF ‘BETWEEN THE LINES’ Screening followed by a Q&A moderated by author Suketu Mehta and reception with music by DJ Rekha Saturday, October 25, 2014, 7:00 p.m.  at Museum of the Moving Image Astoria, New York, October  7 , 2014— Nandita  D as, acclaimed actress of Indian cinema and human rights advocate, will appear in person at Museum of the Moving Image for a screening of  Between the Lines  (2014, 79 mins.), a cinematic adaptation of the 2012 play . Set in contemporary India where educated and affluent couples are caught between modernity and tradition, the film explores the relationship between a husband  (Subodh Maskara)  and wife  (Nandita Das)  who are both lawyers who have been married for ten years. They end up arguing on opposite sides of a criminal trial, resulting in the blurring of their personal and professional lives. The battle in t...

Shabana Azmi, Amit Khanna, Amita Ghai,Anjum Chopra, Apurva Purohit,Chandrajit Bannerjee, Chetna Guha Sinha,Javed Akhtar,Jay Panda, Kanchan Pamnani,Kiran Rao, Lakshmi Tripathi,Lynn D'sousa, Madhu kishwar,Menaka Guruswamy, Munizae Jahangir,Nandita Das, Nandita Gandhi,Nidhi Razdan, Barkha Dutt, Ranjana Kumari, Shilpa Phadke, Shobana S Kumar,Shohini Ghosh, Tavleen Singh, Zoya Akhtar, Zoya Hasan, were at Confederation of Indian Industry organised special confrence on 'The New Indian Woman- Making her presence felt in diverse pheres of life'