You are Cordially Invited to the Annual Anwar Jamal Kidwai Memorial Lecture
Chronicling Indian Cinema:
Creating an Archive for the Future
By
Nasreen Munni Kabir
At 2.30 PM on January 30, 2012
At the
CIT Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia
Nasreen Munni Kabir is an acclaimed UK based documentary filmmaker and the author of eleven books on Hindi Cinema. Her television programmes, made for channel 4 TV, U.K, include the series Movie Mahal, In Search of Guru Dutt, Follow that Star-profile of Amitabh Bachchan and the two part programme, The Inner and Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. She had also directed a profile on Bismilah Khan and the making of “Bombay Dreams”, the musical produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber for BBC Television. Her books and interviews comprise an extensive archive on Bombay cinema that not only preserves its legacy for posterity but has been instrumental in creating an international awareness about Indian cinema.