Nasreen Munni Kabir (born 1950)[1] is an India-born television producer, director and author based in the U.K.[2] She is best known for producing an annual season of Indian films for the British terrestrial television channel Channel 4.
Her work includes the 46-part series Movie Mahal, In Search of Guru Dutt, Follow that Star (a profile of Amitabh Bachchan), and Channel 4 series such as How To Make It Big in Bollywood & The Inner and Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. She won the 1999 Women of Achievement Award in Arts & Culture in the UK and became a governor on the board of the British Film Institute in 2000, serving a six-year term.
Over the years, she has directed several documentaries and published 15 books on cinema, including five books featuring the dialogue of Indian celebrated classic films and book-length biographical conversations with personalities in the Hindi film industry, Javed Akhtar, Lata Mangeshkar, A.R. Rahman, Gulzar, and Waheeda Rehman.[1][3] Her latest book is a biography of legendary tabla virtuoso Ustad Zakir Hussain[4][5]
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^Kabir, Nasreen Munni (16 January 2018). "The Zakir Hussain interview: 'What do I bring to the tabla? I think it is openness and clarity'". Scroll.in. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
^"Zakir Hussain". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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