Showman: New Yorker Profile of Sam Mendes

Excerpts: ““The director as a concept, as a cultural phenomenon, is dying,” he said. “Coppola of ‘The Godfather,’ Scorsese of ‘Taxi Driver,’ Tarantino of ‘Pulp Fiction’—these figures are not going to emerge in the way they did in the twentieth century. The figures who are going to emerge will come out of long-form television.” He continued,

Remembering Habib Tanvir

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Magazine| Jun 22, 2009

Tribute: Beyond The Fourth Wall

SHAMA ZAIDI ON HABIB TANVIR
During the last few days I have been remembering Habib Tanvir over the years, ever since we first met in 1954. It’s like leafing through an old family album of faded photographs. I knew Habib through his interaction with three people in my family who at various times were important in his life. The first was my eccentric uncle Zulfiqar Bokhari who was the director of the Bombay station of All India Radio (AIR). In 1945 Habib left Aligarh without completing his Masters degree to join the Bombay film industry as an actor. Zulfiqar mamu asked him to work for AIR as a producer and actor.