Ordinary Lives Are Extraordinary: Deepa Mehta (Midnight's Children) and Mira Nair (The Reluctant Fundamentalist) in CAAM Fest '13
March 14, 2013 4:00pm
[2-hr. Special].
Two top Southeast Asian directors have new films in CAAM Fest 2013 (formerly the Asian American Int. Film Fest) and Depth Perception has them both! Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala, Salaam Bombay) talks with Pirate Jenny about The Reluctant Fundamentalist, some unusual casting decisions, the Pakistani and Sufi soundtrack, and the reaction of Mohsin Hamid, author of the novel on which the film is based, to Nair's creation of a new ending. "Ordinary lives," Nair believes, "are extraordinary."
[Start: 53:10]
Groundbreaking director Deepa Mehta (Water, Hollywood/Bollywood, Earth, Fire) discusses filming the epic-scale adaptation of the novel Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie. She describes the working process by which she and Salman created the screenplay together, his two uncredited contributions to the movie, and how she handled another country's demands that the Sri Lankan government shut down the shooting of the film.
Music by Nitin Sawhney, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujhe Aazmane Waale, Samidha Joglekar.
PLAYLIST coming soon.
Two top Southeast Asian directors have new films in CAAM Fest 2013 (formerly the Asian American Int. Film Fest) and Depth Perception has them both! Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala, Salaam Bombay) talks with Pirate Jenny about The Reluctant Fundamentalist, some unusual casting decisions, the Pakistani and Sufi soundtrack, and the reaction of Mohsin Hamid, author of the novel on which the film is based, to Nair's creation of a new ending. "Ordinary lives," Nair believes, "are extraordinary."
[Start: 53:10]
Groundbreaking director Deepa Mehta (Water, Hollywood/Bollywood, Earth, Fire) discusses filming the epic-scale adaptation of the novel Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie. She describes the working process by which she and Salman created the screenplay together, his two uncredited contributions to the movie, and how she handled another country's demands that the Sri Lankan government shut down the shooting of the film.
Music by Nitin Sawhney, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujhe Aazmane Waale, Samidha Joglekar.
PLAYLIST coming soon.
