Speakers Shekhar Kapur: Director and writer
Shekhar Kapur is a visionary filmmaker and storyteller who works at the intersection of art, myth and activism.
Why you should listen to him:
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."Cate Blanchett, in Time
Quotes by Shekhar Kapur
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“A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.”
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“I tell a story, and therefore I exist.”
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“Panic is the great access of creativity because that’s the only way to get rid of your mind.”
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“The acceptance of contradiction is the telling of a story, not the resolution.”
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“We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.”
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“When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.”
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Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves
- 21:14 Posted: Mar 2010
Shekhar Kapur on the Web
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Conferences
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- TEDIndia 2009