Actress Sharmin Segal, the niece of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, is set to essay the role of Alamzeb in her uncle’s Ott debut ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’. The look of her character was unveiled on Thursday at the Next on Netflix event in Mumbai’s Bandra area.
The event, held at Mehboob Studios, saw the leading ladies of ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’ gracing the event as well.
Netflix took to Instagram and shared Sharmin’s look. They wrote in the caption, “As everything around her dazzles with glory, she yearns for freedom to love. Introducing @sharminsegal as Alamzeb. ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’ is coming soon, only on Netflix.”
Sharmin, who made her film debut with the 2019 film ‘Malaal’, has earlier worked with her uncle Slb in the capacity of an assistant director in films like ‘Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’.
She belongs to the third generation of the Bhansali family in Hindi cinema.
The event, held at Mehboob Studios, saw the leading ladies of ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’ gracing the event as well.
Netflix took to Instagram and shared Sharmin’s look. They wrote in the caption, “As everything around her dazzles with glory, she yearns for freedom to love. Introducing @sharminsegal as Alamzeb. ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’ is coming soon, only on Netflix.”
Sharmin, who made her film debut with the 2019 film ‘Malaal’, has earlier worked with her uncle Slb in the capacity of an assistant director in films like ‘Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’.
She belongs to the third generation of the Bhansali family in Hindi cinema.
- 2/29/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The 12th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival has organised a special section “Hindi Mood for Marrakech” this year to mark the centenary year of Indian cinema. Some of the Hindi films to be screened are Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Barfi!, English Vinglish, Don and Don 2.
An outdoor screening of selected films from Bollywood will be organised at the Jemaa el Fna square, each evening of the festival.
A delegation of Indian actors, directors and producers, lead by Amitabh Bachchan has been invited to attend a tribute ceremony on Saturday, December 1, 2012.
The festival will run from 30th November – 8th December, 2012.
Films to be screened under ‘Hindi Mood for Marrakech’:
Yash Chopra:
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Amitabh Bachchan | Actor
Black by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Happiness & Tears) by Karan Johar
Agneepath by Mukul Anand
Silsila by Yash Chopra
Deewar by...
An outdoor screening of selected films from Bollywood will be organised at the Jemaa el Fna square, each evening of the festival.
A delegation of Indian actors, directors and producers, lead by Amitabh Bachchan has been invited to attend a tribute ceremony on Saturday, December 1, 2012.
The festival will run from 30th November – 8th December, 2012.
Films to be screened under ‘Hindi Mood for Marrakech’:
Yash Chopra:
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Amitabh Bachchan | Actor
Black by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Happiness & Tears) by Karan Johar
Agneepath by Mukul Anand
Silsila by Yash Chopra
Deewar by...
- 11/29/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Coming up on Friday August 24th is the new romance from Sanjay Leela Bhansali. However, this time he is not the director he is the producer for the rom-com directed by Bela Segal. This is not your regular filmi romance, this is about finding your soul mate when you thought it might be to late. The story is about Farhad Pastakiya, 45-year-old golden hearted Parsi bachelor working as a bra and panty salesman, who has never found love. The only women in his life are his dominating mother, Nargis and doting grandmother, Siloo. The world has given up on him but Farhad has never given up hope. Until one day a 34 B walks into his shop and its love at first sight. Shirin Fugawala 40-year-old, bubbly, straightforward, Parsi trust secretary is Farhad’s soul mate but destiny intervenes in the form of a demolished water-tank. All hell breaks loose as...
- 8/19/2012
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Starring choreographer turned director Farah Khan, who is making her debut as a lead actress, the love story of Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi also stars the great Boman Irani. This is not a classic Hindi romance, with the young college students finding love. In fact, this romantic comedy tells the tale of love later in life and finding your soul mate no matter what your age. Produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the film was directed by Bela Segal and is set to release on August 24th. Jeet Ganguly (Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai, and many Bengali soundtracks) was brought in to bring the songs of the film to life. To be honest I had no idea what to expect when I sat down to listen to this Ost, and what I heard did surprise me. Was it a good surprise or bad? Read on!
The album begins with...
The album begins with...
- 7/27/2012
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Almost every film-maker makes it a point to visit theatres/multiplexes to gauge public feedback the day his/her movie releases. Even top notch actors and actresses sneak into theatres while the screening is in progress and quietly slip out before the screening concludes. The response to their labor of love from the aam aadmi is of paramount importance for film-makers and stars. Also, this exercise acts as a reality check for most, since the audience feedback says it all. But Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an exception! The talented film-maker stopped visiting theatres after his directorial debut Khamoshi The Musical released. "I remember visiting Eros theatre at Churchgate on the day of release and all I could hear was the audience screaming, 'Nana [Patekar] dialogue bol.' I was so heartbroken that I decided never to visit theatres thereafter," Sanjay recalls. But the director broke the promise he made to himself by visiting Chandan,...
- 6/5/2012
- by Taran Adarsh
- BollywoodHungama
Mumbai, Jan 21: Try to imagine the shooting sequence. Farah Khan the famous choreographer-director is dancing in rain with the tunes by Sanjay Leela Bhansali the producer-director. Well, it is from Shirin Farhad of Bela Sehgal. Surprisingly Farah had presented huge number films in the past with most typical raining sequence, which is now turning back to her.
The media informs Bela Segal is presenting Shirin Farhad. It also appeared that Bela highly appreciated Bhansali for giving idea of the rain sequence. It is commonly known that the relationship of Bhansali and Farah was very unstable from a long time back. Considering that when.
The media informs Bela Segal is presenting Shirin Farhad. It also appeared that Bela highly appreciated Bhansali for giving idea of the rain sequence. It is commonly known that the relationship of Bhansali and Farah was very unstable from a long time back. Considering that when.
- 1/21/2012
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
Rani Mukerji isn’t too pleased with Sanjay Leela Bhansali. A few days ago, the filmmaker stated in an interview that Rani wanted the title Hadippa from him, but since he had kept it for sister Bela Segal’s movie, he could not comply. Following which, he had said, “They then added two words, ‘Dil Bole’ with Hadippa and used it as Dil Bole Hadippa (2009). I was upset about it. I thought that wasn’t done.”Just the fact that Bhansali has dragged her into this rather old issue has shocked Rani, who delivered an award-winning performance under the director’s guidance in Black ...
- 5/27/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Rani Mukerji isn’t too pleased with Sanjay Leela Bhansali. A few days ago, the filmmaker stated in an interview that Rani wanted the title Hadippa from him, but since he had kept it for sister Bela Segal’s movie, he could not comply. Following which, he had said, “They then added two words, ‘Dil Bole’ with Hadippa and used it as Dil Bole Hadippa (2009). I was upset about it. I thought that wasn’t done.”Just the fact that Bhansali has dragged her into this rather old issue has shocked Rani, who delivered an award-winning performance under the director’s guidance in Black ...
- 5/27/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
Black represents a major departure -- and major leap forward -- for the Bollywood film industry. Hindi films made in Bombay (or Mumbai as it is now called) invariably and without much imagination revolve around songs, dance numbers and love stories featuring stock characters. Black has none of that. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Devdas) and his fellow producers mean to reach an international audience whose interest in Indian cinema has been sparked by Oscar nominee Lagaan and such non-Bollywood films as Bend It Like Beckham and Monsoon Wedding.
The good news is that Black, which opened in India in mid-February, has become a hit film, demonstrating that Indian audiences themselves are looking for less formulaic and more intelligent local films.
Black initially seems like a lift from The Miracle Worker in its story of a great teacher who is able to connect with and instruct a young deaf, blind and mute girl. One of the givens of Bollywood is its filmmakers' transparent willingness to borrow liberally from Western hit films. But Black moves beyond slavish imitation of Arthur Penn's film in so many ways that it most definitely stands as an original work.
For one thing, the teacher is not a nearly blind young woman but a much older man, full of bluster -- and often full of alcohol, too -- who is grimly determined to "break" this wild child so he can teach her first to behave and then to understand the concept of words and their meanings. The first act does more or less follow the plot arc of the 1962 film: The teacher struggles to gain the young girl's confidence before her parents can ship her off to a mental institution. This culminates in her understanding of the word "water."
Then the film forges ahead to the pupil's years at a university willing to accept her, where her teacher sits by her side in classrooms year after year signing to her the lecturers' words. The film also focuses on the difficulties of the young woman's sister, who resents all the attention received by her older sibling, and misplaced emotions arising from the fact the woman's teacher is of the opposite sex.
The biggest difference, though, comes in a framing device that lets the story be told in flashback from the point where the teacher is himself trapped in a world of blackness. Alzheimer's disease has ravaged his brain. So now it is the pupil who must teach the teacher the meaning of the word "water."
Just as Rain Man turned a handicap into a boxoffice wonder by casting stars Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, so too Black's popularity in India owes much to the casting of Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood's biggest star, as the teacher. Now an older man, Bachchan still commands the screen with authority, though Western audiences might find his acting a bit over the top. The entire movie, for that matter, relies heavily on melodramatic flourishes and a musical score intent on telling viewers what to think and feel at every moment.
The actresses who play the pupil -- Ayesha Kapoor as the young girl and Rani Mukherjee as the older woman -- are truly remarkable in conveying the anguish of a life spent in blackness and the grit and determination it takes to search for the light of education.
The girl's family are well-to-do Anglo-Indians who are Christian and live in a lovely, Raj-influenced home in the northern Indian hill town of Simla. Cinematographer Ravi K. Chandran and art director Omung Kumar turn that house and later the university into things of beauty by using sunlight streaming through windows and pleasing color tones, at times creating a monochromatic look.
BLACK
Applause Entertainment and S.L.B. Films
Credits:
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Writer: Bhavani Iyer
Producers: Sanjay Leela Bhansaali, Anshuman Swami
Executive producers: Gautami Bhatt, Aman Gill
Director of photography: Ravi K. Chandran
Production designer: Omung Kumar
Music: MontySharma
Costumes: Sabyasachi Mukherji
Editor: Bela Segal. Cast: Debraj Sahai: Amitabh Bachchan
Michelle McNally: Rani Mukherjee
Young Michelle: Ayesha Kapoor
Sarah McNally: Nandana Sen
Katherine McNally: Shernaz Patel
Mrs. Nair: Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal
Paul McNally: Vijay Crishna
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 124 minutes...
Black represents a major departure -- and major leap forward -- for the Bollywood film industry. Hindi films made in Bombay (or Mumbai as it is now called) invariably and without much imagination revolve around songs, dance numbers and love stories featuring stock characters. Black has none of that. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Devdas) and his fellow producers mean to reach an international audience whose interest in Indian cinema has been sparked by Oscar nominee Lagaan and such non-Bollywood films as Bend It Like Beckham and Monsoon Wedding.
The good news is that Black, which opened in India in mid-February, has become a hit film, demonstrating that Indian audiences themselves are looking for less formulaic and more intelligent local films.
Black initially seems like a lift from The Miracle Worker in its story of a great teacher who is able to connect with and instruct a young deaf, blind and mute girl. One of the givens of Bollywood is its filmmakers' transparent willingness to borrow liberally from Western hit films. But Black moves beyond slavish imitation of Arthur Penn's film in so many ways that it most definitely stands as an original work.
For one thing, the teacher is not a nearly blind young woman but a much older man, full of bluster -- and often full of alcohol, too -- who is grimly determined to "break" this wild child so he can teach her first to behave and then to understand the concept of words and their meanings. The first act does more or less follow the plot arc of the 1962 film: The teacher struggles to gain the young girl's confidence before her parents can ship her off to a mental institution. This culminates in her understanding of the word "water."
Then the film forges ahead to the pupil's years at a university willing to accept her, where her teacher sits by her side in classrooms year after year signing to her the lecturers' words. The film also focuses on the difficulties of the young woman's sister, who resents all the attention received by her older sibling, and misplaced emotions arising from the fact the woman's teacher is of the opposite sex.
The biggest difference, though, comes in a framing device that lets the story be told in flashback from the point where the teacher is himself trapped in a world of blackness. Alzheimer's disease has ravaged his brain. So now it is the pupil who must teach the teacher the meaning of the word "water."
Just as Rain Man turned a handicap into a boxoffice wonder by casting stars Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, so too Black's popularity in India owes much to the casting of Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood's biggest star, as the teacher. Now an older man, Bachchan still commands the screen with authority, though Western audiences might find his acting a bit over the top. The entire movie, for that matter, relies heavily on melodramatic flourishes and a musical score intent on telling viewers what to think and feel at every moment.
The actresses who play the pupil -- Ayesha Kapoor as the young girl and Rani Mukherjee as the older woman -- are truly remarkable in conveying the anguish of a life spent in blackness and the grit and determination it takes to search for the light of education.
The girl's family are well-to-do Anglo-Indians who are Christian and live in a lovely, Raj-influenced home in the northern Indian hill town of Simla. Cinematographer Ravi K. Chandran and art director Omung Kumar turn that house and later the university into things of beauty by using sunlight streaming through windows and pleasing color tones, at times creating a monochromatic look.
BLACK
Applause Entertainment and S.L.B. Films
Credits:
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Writer: Bhavani Iyer
Producers: Sanjay Leela Bhansaali, Anshuman Swami
Executive producers: Gautami Bhatt, Aman Gill
Director of photography: Ravi K. Chandran
Production designer: Omung Kumar
Music: MontySharma
Costumes: Sabyasachi Mukherji
Editor: Bela Segal. Cast: Debraj Sahai: Amitabh Bachchan
Michelle McNally: Rani Mukherjee
Young Michelle: Ayesha Kapoor
Sarah McNally: Nandana Sen
Katherine McNally: Shernaz Patel
Mrs. Nair: Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal
Paul McNally: Vijay Crishna
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 124 minutes...
- 4/28/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
Black represents a major departure -- and major leap forward -- for the Bollywood film industry. Hindi films made in Bombay (or Mumbai as it is now called) invariably and without much imagination revolve around songs, dance numbers and love stories featuring stock characters. Black has none of that. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Devdas) and his fellow producers mean to reach an international audience whose interest in Indian cinema has been sparked by Oscar nominee Lagaan and such non-Bollywood films as Bend It Like Beckham and Monsoon Wedding.
The good news is that Black, which opened in India in mid-February, has become a hit film, demonstrating that Indian audiences themselves are looking for less formulaic and more intelligent local films.
Black initially seems like a lift from The Miracle Worker in its story of a great teacher who is able to connect with and instruct a young deaf, blind and mute girl. One of the givens of Bollywood is its filmmakers' transparent willingness to borrow liberally from Western hit films. But Black moves beyond slavish imitation of Arthur Penn's film in so many ways that it most definitely stands as an original work.
For one thing, the teacher is not a nearly blind young woman but a much older man, full of bluster -- and often full of alcohol, too -- who is grimly determined to "break" this wild child so he can teach her first to behave and then to understand the concept of words and their meanings. The first act does more or less follow the plot arc of the 1962 film: The teacher struggles to gain the young girl's confidence before her parents can ship her off to a mental institution. This culminates in her understanding of the word "water."
Then the film forges ahead to the pupil's years at a university willing to accept her, where her teacher sits by her side in classrooms year after year signing to her the lecturers' words. The film also focuses on the difficulties of the young woman's sister, who resents all the attention received by her older sibling, and misplaced emotions arising from the fact the woman's teacher is of the opposite sex.
The biggest difference, though, comes in a framing device that lets the story be told in flashback from the point where the teacher is himself trapped in a world of blackness. Alzheimer's disease has ravaged his brain. So now it is the pupil who must teach the teacher the meaning of the word "water."
Just as Rain Man turned a handicap into a boxoffice wonder by casting stars Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, so too Black's popularity in India owes much to the casting of Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood's biggest star, as the teacher. Now an older man, Bachchan still commands the screen with authority, though Western audiences might find his acting a bit over the top. The entire movie, for that matter, relies heavily on melodramatic flourishes and a musical score intent on telling viewers what to think and feel at every moment.
The actresses who play the pupil -- Ayesha Kapoor as the young girl and Rani Mukherjee as the older woman -- are truly remarkable in conveying the anguish of a life spent in blackness and the grit and determination it takes to search for the light of education.
The girl's family are well-to-do Anglo-Indians who are Christian and live in a lovely, Raj-influenced home in the northern Indian hill town of Simla. Cinematographer Ravi K. Chandran and art director Omung Kumar turn that house and later the university into things of beauty by using sunlight streaming through windows and pleasing color tones, at times creating a monochromatic look.
BLACK
Applause Entertainment and S.L.B. Films
Credits:
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Writer: Bhavani Iyer
Producers: Sanjay Leela Bhansaali, Anshuman Swami
Executive producers: Gautami Bhatt, Aman Gill
Director of photography: Ravi K. Chandran
Production designer: Omung Kumar
Music: MontySharma
Costumes: Sabyasachi Mukherji
Editor: Bela Segal. Cast: Debraj Sahai: Amitabh Bachchan
Michelle McNally: Rani Mukherjee
Young Michelle: Ayesha Kapoor
Sarah McNally: Nandana Sen
Katherine McNally: Shernaz Patel
Mrs. Nair: Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal
Paul McNally: Vijay Crishna
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 124 minutes...
Black represents a major departure -- and major leap forward -- for the Bollywood film industry. Hindi films made in Bombay (or Mumbai as it is now called) invariably and without much imagination revolve around songs, dance numbers and love stories featuring stock characters. Black has none of that. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Devdas) and his fellow producers mean to reach an international audience whose interest in Indian cinema has been sparked by Oscar nominee Lagaan and such non-Bollywood films as Bend It Like Beckham and Monsoon Wedding.
The good news is that Black, which opened in India in mid-February, has become a hit film, demonstrating that Indian audiences themselves are looking for less formulaic and more intelligent local films.
Black initially seems like a lift from The Miracle Worker in its story of a great teacher who is able to connect with and instruct a young deaf, blind and mute girl. One of the givens of Bollywood is its filmmakers' transparent willingness to borrow liberally from Western hit films. But Black moves beyond slavish imitation of Arthur Penn's film in so many ways that it most definitely stands as an original work.
For one thing, the teacher is not a nearly blind young woman but a much older man, full of bluster -- and often full of alcohol, too -- who is grimly determined to "break" this wild child so he can teach her first to behave and then to understand the concept of words and their meanings. The first act does more or less follow the plot arc of the 1962 film: The teacher struggles to gain the young girl's confidence before her parents can ship her off to a mental institution. This culminates in her understanding of the word "water."
Then the film forges ahead to the pupil's years at a university willing to accept her, where her teacher sits by her side in classrooms year after year signing to her the lecturers' words. The film also focuses on the difficulties of the young woman's sister, who resents all the attention received by her older sibling, and misplaced emotions arising from the fact the woman's teacher is of the opposite sex.
The biggest difference, though, comes in a framing device that lets the story be told in flashback from the point where the teacher is himself trapped in a world of blackness. Alzheimer's disease has ravaged his brain. So now it is the pupil who must teach the teacher the meaning of the word "water."
Just as Rain Man turned a handicap into a boxoffice wonder by casting stars Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, so too Black's popularity in India owes much to the casting of Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood's biggest star, as the teacher. Now an older man, Bachchan still commands the screen with authority, though Western audiences might find his acting a bit over the top. The entire movie, for that matter, relies heavily on melodramatic flourishes and a musical score intent on telling viewers what to think and feel at every moment.
The actresses who play the pupil -- Ayesha Kapoor as the young girl and Rani Mukherjee as the older woman -- are truly remarkable in conveying the anguish of a life spent in blackness and the grit and determination it takes to search for the light of education.
The girl's family are well-to-do Anglo-Indians who are Christian and live in a lovely, Raj-influenced home in the northern Indian hill town of Simla. Cinematographer Ravi K. Chandran and art director Omung Kumar turn that house and later the university into things of beauty by using sunlight streaming through windows and pleasing color tones, at times creating a monochromatic look.
BLACK
Applause Entertainment and S.L.B. Films
Credits:
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Writer: Bhavani Iyer
Producers: Sanjay Leela Bhansaali, Anshuman Swami
Executive producers: Gautami Bhatt, Aman Gill
Director of photography: Ravi K. Chandran
Production designer: Omung Kumar
Music: MontySharma
Costumes: Sabyasachi Mukherji
Editor: Bela Segal. Cast: Debraj Sahai: Amitabh Bachchan
Michelle McNally: Rani Mukherjee
Young Michelle: Ayesha Kapoor
Sarah McNally: Nandana Sen
Katherine McNally: Shernaz Patel
Mrs. Nair: Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal
Paul McNally: Vijay Crishna
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 124 minutes...
- 4/27/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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