Mumbai: Acclaimed director Shekhar Kapur, who is known for making films like 'Masoom', 'Mr India' and 'Bandit Queen', has termed his new work 'Paani' a mission. "'Paani' is a film, but much more. 'Paani' is a passion, but much more. 'Paani' is a mission," Kapur tweeted Saturday. The film is based in a future world where wars over water have broken out. Water is now owned by international corporations who...
12:03 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Mumbai: Ever since filmmaker Shekhar Kapur directed Seema Biswas as the dreaded bandit queen Phoolan Devi, way back in, the film became a household name. Now buzz is that a sequel to it is being planned. However, this time around Bobby Bedi will don the directors hat. While the rest of the cast is still being finalized, buzz is that Seema will be retained as the protagonist. Our source says,...
12:24 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Washington: Acclaimed actor Seema Biswas of 'Bandit Queen' and 'Water' fame looks at Indian-American director Prashant Bhargava's award winning first feature film 'Patang' (Kite) as an extraordinary film. "It's not a conventional kind of film," she said of the film about family conflict set in Ahmedabad. "It's totally different, totally unique and totally unconventional in its treatment, whether it's handling of the camera or handling the actors." "No one can...
04:29 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Kanpur: A huge coloured photograph of Phoolan Devi, the bandit queen-turned-MP who was shot dead 11 years ago in New Delhi, adorns the wall of the first floor office of a shoe showroom. "She was my 'Behenji' (sister). I will always remember and respect her," said Mohammed Asim, 44, owner of the showroom in Harjinder Nagar locality, who is also an independent candidate from Maharajpur constituency of Kanpur district in...
11:08 AM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur says working with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in Bandit Queen brought him closer to god. "Working with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was the closest I got to god," Kapur wrote on microblogging site Twitter. The late music maestro had composed music for Kapur's 1994 film based on the life of dacoit Phoolan Devi, who was gunned down in 2001. The composer tuned soulful...
03:38 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Shakuntala Devi was once a dreaded dacoit in Bihar, but now she is the star of a Bhojpuri movie on Bandit Queen. ...
09:57 AM, Oct 03, 2011
Shekhar Kapur remembers Mala Sen, writer of his finest cinematic work Bandit Queen, and says he couldn't have made the film without her and that her intense attachment to unravelling Phoolan Devi's life was an amazing fulcrum in her life. Sen died on Monday of cancer at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. She was 64. "I'm so relieved that she didn't die in London. Mumbai where she passed away,...
01:00 PM, May 24, 2011
Bandit Queen producer Bobby Bedi says he is yet again set to make a film as hard hitting as the critically acclaimed biopic made on Phoolan Devi. "One film I am doing is about female infanticide, set in Gujarat. It's as hard hitting as 'Bandit Queen'. I am working on it," Bedi told IANS. Since Bandit Queen, Bedi produced critically acclaimed films like Fire and Maqbool and says he was...
11:45 AM, Mar 24, 2011
Kapur describes the legendary actor as a "
karmyogi, completely fearless". ...
11:14 AM, Dec 15, 2009
New Delhi: Harbhajan Singh is fast becoming India's most dependable middle order batsman in Tests. Yet again he played an invaluable knock and shared an important partnership with Suresh Raina to rescue India from a top-order collapse that at one stage saw them tottering at 85/6 on day one of the first Test against West Indies at Kingston, Jamaica. India finished at a modest 246 all out thanks to Raina's...
11:17 PM, Feb 05, 2008
