The Changing Face of Stardom

Shyam Benegal Film director, Screenwriter,41 films to his  credits , awarded the Padma Shri in 1976, Padma Bhushan in 1991. Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration in 2004.  the Dadasaheb Phalke Award -in 2005. Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award, Winner of the National Film Award Seven times, awarded the highest award in Indian cinema for lifetime achievement.  He was awarded the Homi Bhabha Fellowship, which enabled him to work at Children Television Workshop, New York, and later at Boston WGBHTV.

Sidharth Bhatia has been a journalist for over 35 years, working both in India and abroad. He is a regular commentator in newspapers and on television on current affairs, society and culture. He was awarded the press fellowship to Wolfson College, Cambridge and made an associate fellow of the college in 2001. He was a foreign correspondent in South Africa during the transition to democracy in 1993. He was on the editorial board that launched DNA in Mumbai in 2005 and ran the editorial page of the paper until the end of 2009. Author of the book Indian Modern Cinema: The Navketan Story 2011.  

Nasreen Munni Kabir is renowned documentary filmmaker & author, an India-born television producer based in UK. Her work includes the 46-part series Movie Mahal, In Search of Guru Dutt, Follow that Star- profile of Amitabh Bachchan and Channel 4 series such as How To Make It Big In Bollywood. She won the 1999 Women of Achievement Award in Arts & Culture and became a governor of the British Film Institute in 2000.  She has produced documentary on Shahrukh Khan, "The Inner and Outer World of ShahRukh Khan". She published a coffee table book called In Search of Lata Mangeshkar, In April 2011, a book titled "A. R. Rahman The Spirit of Music" written based on the conversations with her.