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Shweta Basu Prasad Digital Playlist

Shweta Basu Prasad is a National Award-winning actor whose filmography includes Vishal Bhardwaj's Makdee and Nagesh Kukunoor's Iqbal. She is currently acting in Balaji Telefilms' soap opera Chandra Nandini, a historical series for Star Plus where she plays the lead role of Nandini. She was seen in Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya earlier this year. A graduate in Mass media and journalism, Shweta has made a documentary film on the dying visibility of Indian classical music and co-producing a 10-minute short film "Interior Cafe night" starring Naseeruddin Shah. She will be reviewing and recommending TV series, films and documentaries every week on Shweta Basu Prasad's digital playlist. Her recommendations have relevance with the society we live in. With the booming popularity of digital content, it's an effort to educate the readers about what the digital content has to offer us.

SHWETA BASU PRASAD DIGITAL PLAYLIST NEWS

Shweta Basu Prasad’s Digital Playlist | Two: A Film Fable by Satyajit Ray

November 19, 2017 3:59 pm

Shweta Basu Prasad’s Digital Playlist: Shweta Basu's this week's recommendation is classic short film by master filmmaker Satyajit Ray, Two: A Film Fable available on YouTube, restored by the Academy film archives.

Shweta Basu Prasad’s Digital Playlist: Shunyata starring Jackie Shroff will force you to think

October 28, 2017 8:19 am

Shweta Basu Prasad’s Digital Playlist: Shot only at night in the hollow streets of Mumbai by Arkodeb Mukherjee does full justice to the story. Departments of sound design, music and edit also get top marks. Jackie Shroff as Madhur is fantastic.

Shweta Basu Prasad Digital Playlist: Kothanodi is a gripping Assamese film

September 08, 2017 3:44 pm

Shweta Basu Prasad Digital Playlist: This week, the anthology Kothanodi directed by Bhaskar Hazarika has made it to the list. The anthology is inspired by Buri ai'r Xadhu (grandmother's tales), a collection of oral folk tales by popular writer Lakshminath Bezbaroa.

Shweta Basu Prasad’s Digital Playlist: Mangalyaan India's Mission to Mars is a crisp 44-minute documentary

August 19, 2017 8:37 am

Shweta Basu Prasad’s Digital Playlist: Mangalyaan gives hope that nothing is unachievable, it gives hopes for a new world in the undiscovered realm. Watching this documentary was like watching a cricket match that we already know has been won by India, but still continue watching for the hits and misses during the match, says Shweta.

Shweta Basu Prasad’s digital playlist: The battle of love and fate is painted beautifully in Sand Storm

August 11, 2017 10:21 am

Shweta Basu Prasad Digital Playlist: Sand Storm starts with Suliman (Hitham Omari) a mid forties man teaching his teenage daughter Layla (Lamis Ammar) how to drive a car, in a small village in the south of Israel. The film was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.

Shweta Basu Prasad's digital playlist: The Violin Player holds a mirror up to art and artists in India today

July 21, 2017 6:12 pm

Shweta Basu Prasad’s digital playlist: Shweta Basu Prasad’s this week's recommendation is Bauddhayan Mukherji's 72 min feature film The Violin Player available on Netflix. The film premiered at MAMI film festival in Mumbai in 2015 and later screened at Kerala film festival.

Shweta Basu Prasad's digital playlist: This weekend, learn to think abstract

June 23, 2017 10:12 am

Shweta Basu Prasad's digital playlist: This week my recommendation is about eight such phenomenally talented designers in an eight episode documentary series, Netflix original Abstract: the art of design. Abstract is shot extremely well and thankfully does not have stereotypical documentary format of interviews shot in sharp lights against dark backgrounds or dim lights and lots of music.

Shweta Basu Prasad's digital playlist: Asha Jaoar Majhe is a labour of love

June 09, 2017 11:08 am

Actor Shweta Basu Prasad will be reviewing a film, documentary or TV series every week. Asha Jaoar Majhe (Labour of love) is the recommendation for this week. Aditya Vikram Sengupta's directorial debut is an hour and 22 minutes long. The film travelled to several prestigious film festivals around the world.

Shweta Basu Prasad's Digital Playlist: Review of Netflix series 13 Reasons Why

June 02, 2017 10:54 am

Actor Shweta Basu Prasad will be reviewing a film, documentary or TV series every week and her choice this week is Netflix's 13 Reasons Why.

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