About the author
Nasreen Munni Kabir is a reputed documentary film-maker and film writer. Based in London, she has made several programmes on Hindi cinema for Channel 4 TV, UK, including the forty-six part series Movie Mahal and The Inner/Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. Her several books are, among others, Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema, Talking Films and Talking Songs with Javed Akhtar, A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music, Lata Mangeshkar: In Her Own Voice and, most recently, In the Company of a Poet, a book of conversations with Gulzar.