India-born, Toronto-bred Nisha Pahuja’s beautiful and poignant The World Before Her won the World Documentary Competition Award at Tribeca Film Festival, where it premiered a few weeks ago. And while Pahuja grew up and lives in Toronto, she still has a fascination for her homeland. The World Before Her is her third film, after Diamond Road and Bollywood Bound, and her second dealing with India. It presents two sides of the country. For one segment of the film, Pahuja’s crew follows 20 “Miss India” contestants as they endure the pageant’s controversial month-long training regimen. The audience accompanies the women on every step of this boot camp, from Botox injection sessions to photo shoots. Pahuja focuses on three pageant hopefuls who are living a dream but who are also pushed into a new world and taken away from the patriarchal society they know. Ruhi is one of the competitors...
- 6/14/2012
- by Leopoldine Huyghues Despointes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Nisha Pahuja, New Delhi born and Toronto raised, got into documentary filmmaking after studying English lit, working in social services and then by working as a doc researcher. "For some reason," after starting to make films thirteen years ago, she says, "I still make them--finding people with incredible stories that reveal to us something about the world we live in. And more importantly, something of what it means to be human. I could never 'write' a character like Prachi. The fact that she [the subject of 'World Before Her'] exists is extraordinary to me. Sometimes I feel she found me as much as I found her." Pahuja now lives in Bombay and Toronto. She co-wrote and directed "Diamond Road," winner of the 2008 Gemini Award for Best Documentary series, and her "Bollywood Bound" won a Gemini in 2002. What it's about: The Miss India beauty contest and a Hindu fundamentalist camp for girls--two competing ideas of...
- 4/4/2012
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Kim Kardashian Bollywood Bound?
Kim Kardashian isn’t exactly a box-office draw, although her leaked home videos have always been immensely popular. Now, the reality star with no actual acting talent might be strutting her stuff overseas as a Bollywood actress.
Kardashian is currently traveling through Dubai with her mother, Kris Jenner, and Sheeraz Hasan to promote the opening of Hasan’s Dubai retail outlet for Millions of Milkshakes. According to Hasan, Kardashian put his shake shop on the map so he felt he needed to bring his good luck charm to Dubai for the opening of his new store.
As you can see from the video, Hasan took a few minutes from milkshake promoting to share his plans for having Kardashian appear in a Bollywood film.
“I asked Kim if she would ever be interested to star in a Bollywood movie and she hasn’t said no,” Hasan says.
Kim Kardashian isn’t exactly a box-office draw, although her leaked home videos have always been immensely popular. Now, the reality star with no actual acting talent might be strutting her stuff overseas as a Bollywood actress.
Kardashian is currently traveling through Dubai with her mother, Kris Jenner, and Sheeraz Hasan to promote the opening of Hasan’s Dubai retail outlet for Millions of Milkshakes. According to Hasan, Kardashian put his shake shop on the map so he felt he needed to bring his good luck charm to Dubai for the opening of his new store.
As you can see from the video, Hasan took a few minutes from milkshake promoting to share his plans for having Kardashian appear in a Bollywood film.
“I asked Kim if she would ever be interested to star in a Bollywood movie and she hasn’t said no,” Hasan says.
- 10/18/2011
- by Marty Shaw
- Boomtron
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