Nasreen Munni Kabir

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.