Bollywood Dreams
2 authors - Paperback
£17.95
Jonathan Torgovnik began his career as a combat photographer in the Israeli army. In 1992 Torgovnik entered the photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York where he graduated with a BFA degree. His photographs have been published in numerous American and international publications, including Newsweek, Smithsonian, London Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, Paris Match and Stern. Torgovnik's award-winning photographs have been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions in New York and Europe, and have been acquired by museums such as The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Jewish Museum, New York.
Nasreen Munni Kabir is a well-respected documentary film-maker and author who has made several television series about Hindi cinema, including Movie Mahal and In Search of Guru Dutt. She programmes Indian film seasons for Channel 4 UK and has organized festivals of Indian Cinema at the Pompidou Centre, Paris. Her books include Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema (1996), Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema (1999) with Javed Akhtar, and Bollywood: The India Cinema Story (2002). Born in India, Kabir has lived in France and the United Kingdom for most of her life. In January 2000, Kabir was made a governor of the British Film Institute.