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Shekhar Kapur

Shekhar Kapur is a visionary filmmaker and storyteller who works at the intersection of art, myth and activism.

Golden Globe-winning director Shekhar Kapur makes lush.

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Golden Globe-winning director Shekhar Kapur makes lush, international period films — such as Elizabeth and The Four Feathers  — and Indian hits like Mr. India and Bandit Queen. Most recently, Kapur’s short film “Passages”” is part of the October 2009 film anthology New York, I Love You. Also this October, he sat on the judging panel for 1 Minute to Save the World, a competition for short films about climate change. (And yes, last summer, he was a judge on India’s Got Talent.)

His forthcoming film Paani – the hindi word for water – explores mumbai’s shrinking supply of water and its distribution underworld. equally at home in hollywood and Bollywood, he’s also a comics mogul; in 2006 he co-founded Virgin Comics as a venue for turning Indian and Hindu myths into pop-culture icons. For the company, now reorganized as Liquid Comics, he cocreated the series Ramayan 3392 A.D., based on the Ramayana. His newest Liquid series: Devi.

“He was completely and utterly unusual, and deeply unafraid.”

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