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Following on the stories in our earlier Women in Indian Film collection, comes this vibrant new mini-series that focuses on the work of the next generation of film practitioners: Zoya Akhtar, Vidya Balan, Rima Das, Priya Seth and Shefali Shah. Under the editorship of the leading film scholar, Nasreen Munni Kabir, writers Kaveree Bamzai, Charu Gargi, Udita Jhunjhunwala, Namrata Joshi and Nandini Ramnath bring to light new acting styles, editing choices and directorial innovations that put women in Indian cinema at the heart of change and experimentation today.

NAMRATA JOSHI is an independent journalist and film critic. A consulting editor with The New Indian Express and freelance film critic with Screen International, she works as associate programmer (India) for the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA). In 2004 she won the National Award for Best Film Critic in India. Among her published work is Reel India: Cinema Off the Beaten Track (2019).

UDITA JHUNJHUNWALA is an entertainment, culture and lifestyle writer, film critic and author. Formerly Entertainment Editor of Mid-Day and Hindustan Times, her writings have also appeared Vogue, Screen International, Mint, Scroll.in, Firstpost.com, The Hindu and others. A member of the Film Critics Guild (India), and a festival curator, Udita was a contributing author to Women in Indian Film (Zubaan 2008) and Bollywood’s Top 20 Stars. 

NANDINI RAMNATH is a film critic and journalist. She has worked with The Indian Express, NDTV, Time Out Mumbai, Mint and Scroll.in.

KAVEREE BAMZAI was editor of India Today and has worked in The Times of India and The Indian Express. She is the author of The Three Khans and The Emergence of New India and No Regrets: The Guilt-free Woman’s Guide to a Good Life, and several monographs and essays on Indian cinema. She is a TEDEx speaker, and presenter of Tiffin Talks, a video magazine on books and cinema.

CHARU GARGI is Founder member of Mediastorm, India’s first women’s film collective, a documentary film maker, an author and academic. She has made video lectures for the  Electronic Media Production Centre, Indira Gandhi National Open University and taught in the School of Media and Culture Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.