Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaaye Toh Kya Hai

Born in India, Nasreen Munni Kabir lives in London and has made several TV series for Channel 4, UK on Hindi cinema, including Movie Mahal,  In Search of Guru Dutt, Lata Mangeshkar in Her Own Voice and The Inner/Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. She has authored 23 books on Hindi cinema including conversational biographies with Lata Mangeshkar, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Waheeda Rehman and Zakir Hussain. She has been curating Channel 4’s annual Indian film season since 1982 and is a former governor on the board of the BFI (2001-2007). Her latest publication is a diary titled The Legacy of Guru Dutt, to mark the filmmaker’s 100 birth anniversary She is also an established subtitler, having subtitled over 820 films from Hindi to English including many top titles (the most recent being Ikkis) and classic films (like the restored version of Sholay) and a selection of web series including Dahad, IC 814 and The Kandahar Hijack.

Best known for her long association with Femina, which she edited for 12 years, Sathya Saran is also the author of a diverse variety of books. The Dark Side reflects her love for the short story, while the critically acclaimed biographies, Ten Years with Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi’s Journey; Sun Mere Bandhu Re: The Musical World of SD Burman and Baat Niklegi Toh Phir: The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh bear testimony to her love for  cinema and music. She has also written biographies of Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia and Ritu Nanda. She has translated Caged, a book of poems by Gulzar. Her next book is on poet and lyricist, Shailendra. She is currently a Consulting Editor with Penguin Random House and also teaches fashion journalism at NIFT. Besides, she is the India correspondent for Ms magazine, USA and a columnist with The New Indian Express and Hindu Business Line.

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and archivist. His first feature documentary Celluloid Man won two National Awards. His second documentary The Immortals premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award for the Best Film at MIFF 2016. His third documentary CzechMate – In Search of Jiri Menzel is an exploration of the Czechoslovakian New Wave. In 2014 he established Film Heritage Foundation (FHF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving and restoring India’s film heritage. He is the Festival Director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He is also a member of the Artistic Committee of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival, Bologna and of the Honorary Committee of the Nitrate Picture Show, George Eastman House’s Festival of Film Conservation. In 2025, he was conferred with the Vittorio Boarini Award. His first foray into the world of film restoration was as a donor for the restoration of Hitchcock’s silent film The Lodger  by the British Film Institute. He went on to collaborate on two restoration projects with Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation: Uday Shankar’s Kalpana and Dr Lester James Peries’ Nidhanaya that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and Venice Film Festival 2013, respectively. FHF has been restoring forgotten gems of Indian cinema including Aravindan Govindan’s Kummatty and Thamp̄, Aribam Syam Sharma’s Ishanou, Shyam Benegal’s Manthan, Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri, Sumitra Peries’ Sri Lankan film Gehenu Lamai, Bimal Roy’s Do Bigha Zamin and Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay.

An alumnus of La Martinere and St Xavier’s College and a businessman by profession, Anuurag Poddar is a Hindustani Classical music aficionado and a keen vocalist who has been pursuing his hobby under the tutelage of Pt. Mohan Lal Mishra and Pt. Deepak Mishra of the Banaras Gharana. A movie-buff, watching monochrome films of Bollywood is what piques his interest. He has grown up idolising icons like Mohammad Rafi, Shammi Kapoor, Guru Dutta and Raj Kapoor.