Born in India, documentary filmmaker and writer Nasreen Munni Kabir lives in London,
where she has made several programmes on Hindi cinema for Channel 4 TV, including
the forty-six-part series Movie Mahal and The Inner/Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan.
Her several books include Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema; Talking Films and Talking Songs
with Javed Akhtar; The Spirit of Music with A. R. Rahman; Lata Mangeshkar: In Her
Own Voice; and five publications featuring the complete dialogue of classic films like
Mughal-e-Azam and Awaara