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Irrfan to act in Mira Nair's dance film

April 30, 2014 1:38 pm

Mira Nair and Irrfan Khan are teaming up for a film called 'The Bengali Detective', about a middle-aged detective in Kolkata.

Mira Nair turns down invite to attend film festival in Israel

July 22, 2013 1:23 pm

Mira Nair: I will go to Israel when the walls come down.

New releases take a back seat

May 24, 2013 12:42 am

Big releases suffered,as people preferred previous weeks films.

Jugni Girl's Hollywood Outing

May 22, 2013 2:57 am

Meesha Shafi talks about her role in the film and her music.

Made 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' for the young generation,says Mira Nair

May 14, 2013 1:20 pm

'My film is about a young man who sees things for the first time,' says Mira Nair

The Reluctant Fundamentalist not about 9/11: Mira Nair

May 08, 2013 1:51 pm

The film,Mira says,is also her first attempt at a thriller.

Mohsin Hamid writes love story disguised as self-help guide

April 03, 2013 1:12 pm

Mohsin Hamid has come out with his third novel,a satirical book about today's world.

Mira Nair: I almost gave up on The Reluctant Fundamentalist

March 24, 2013 4:41 pm

'It was my son and husband who pushed me because they knew it was something I just had to do.'

Mira Nair was looking for "worldliness",hence rejected Ranbir Kapoor

March 14, 2013 3:36 pm

Even Imran Khan had auditioned for film but couldn't make it.

He calls himself a Sundance baby. The internationally-recognised platform allowed scriptwriter William Wheeler,then an NYU film graduate,to make his first film,The Prime Gig. He has since penned several films and TV shows,including the acclaimed The Hoax. A member of the team that adapted The Reluctant Fundamentalist for screen,Wheeler is currently on a trip to India as part of the second Sundance Screenwriters Lab in association with Mumbai Mantra. He talks to Dipti Nagpaul-DSouza about how he lent the Mira Nair movie a western perspective and why it subscribes to the thriller genre.