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'This leading filmmaker told me: "Don't let the industry cake you up with makeup and wigs. You are a breath of fresh air".'
Born on October 29, 1948 at Nagpur, Mundhra was known for issue-oriented films such as Bawandar, which had Nandita Das in leading role, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-starrer Provoked.
'Once in a while, I flirt with the idea of direction.' 'If I direct, it will be a human story that touches me.' 'I'm nervous of forcing myself into making a socially relevant film.'
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Om Puri and Anant Mahadevan pay tribute to filmmaker Jagmohan Mundra.
Filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, who had put on hold a biographical movie on Sonia Gandhi after her party slapped a legal notice on him, has said the Congress President told him she was "amused" by the project as she felt such movies were only made about "people who are dead."
'I didn't want to do a highlight reel with greatest hits of Yash Raj Films.' 'I wanted to do an actual story.'
At Friday's photocall promoting the film during Cannes Film Festival, Aishwarya was present with the director Jagmohan Mundhra and Kiran Ahluwalia.
Smriti Mundhra's documentary The Romantics has many, many, gems about one of Bollywood's most successful film-makers and more importantly, his iconic father, Yash Chopra.
Bappida's softer more creative work got buried in the noise, rues Subhash K Jha as he picks the late lamented composer's most soulful songs.
This Khan superstar told Gulshan Grover, 'Go ahead, become a star in Hollywood.'
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