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They combined creativity with economics. They bend and broke rules of storytelling They redefined the business of entertainment. Welcome to #MeriKahani with Bhawana Somaaya

A podcast where Padma Shri Bhawana Somaaya chats with the genius minds from the field of Performance & Fine Arts, and the Game Changers of the entertainment industry to share their incredible journeys and draw inspiration from their life.

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They combined creativity with economics. They bend and broke rules of storytelling They redefined the business of entertainment. Welcome to #MeriKahani with Bhawana Somaaya

A podcast where Padma Shri Bhawana Somaaya chats with the genius minds from the field of Performance & Fine Arts, and the Game Changers of the entertainment industry to share their incredible journeys and draw inspiration from their life.

Listen on Apple Podcasts
Requires subscription and macOS 11.4 or higher

    Chasing Equality: Neeraj Churi's Journey in Promoting South Asian LGBTQ+ Cinema

    Chasing Equality: Neeraj Churi's Journey in Promoting South Asian LGBTQ+ Cinema

    Neeraj Churi, founder of Lotus Visual Productions, promotes South Asian LGBTQ+ films worldwide. He produces, screens, and curates film festivals while also mentoring emerging projects. Neeraj's expertise extends to advisory roles and prestigious film market selections, solidifying his impact in the industry.

    Listen to his experience of raising awareness for the cause through his love for films and filmmaking on Meri Kahani with Bhawana Somaaya

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    • 20 min
    Smriti Mundhra and The Romantics

    Smriti Mundhra and The Romantics

    Smriti Mundhra started a production company, Meralta Films, that specializes in documentary films and non-fiction content.Mundhra won the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival for her first feature documentary film A Suitable Girl, along with her co-director Sarita Khurana.In 2020, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for her film St. Louis Superman (2019)Mundhra was born in Los Angeles, California and raised between Los Angeles and Mumbai, India. Her father, Jag Mundhra was also a filmmaker.

    She is also known for the Netflix series "Indian Matchmaking" and her most recent work which is being appreciated by the entire film industry - The Romantics, that encapsulates 70 years of film history of Yash Raj Films.

    Listen to Smriti Mundhra share what went behind making such enigmatic documentary series as she chats with Bhawana Somaaya.

     

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    • 15 min
    100th Episode Special Meri Kahani with Bhawana Somaaya ft. Paresh Rawal Manish Malhotra Sonakshi & more

    100th Episode Special Meri Kahani with Bhawana Somaaya ft. Paresh Rawal Manish Malhotra Sonakshi & more

    The journey that Padma Shri Bhawana Somaaya & Ep.Log Media embarked on 8th Marc, 2019 to share unheard stories about people from the field of art, and business of entertainment completes 100 episodes!

    Over the past countless minutes of conversations, we have had some of the most memorable experiences. This 100th episode is a trip down memory lane featuring a few of the voices that appeared on the podcast. Featuring: Manish Malhotra, Sonakshi Sinha, Paresh Rawal, Ashvini Yardi, Sameer Nair, Arshad Warsi, Daksha Mashruwala, Namita Thapar, and Shobhaa De!

     

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    • 5 min
    Meri Kahani ft. Anusree Bonnerjee

    Meri Kahani ft. Anusree Bonnerjee

    Trained since the age of 7, in the Guru-Shishya Parampara of the Tanjavur style under the tutelage of renowned,  Late Kalaimamani Guru T. K. Mahalingam Pillai, In 1984, Anusree Bonnerjee won the prestigious Singar Mani Award at the “Kal ke Kalakaar”, a national conference of music and dance and has since performed at a number of dance & music conferences including the prestigious  Haridas Sammelan and other programmes  in Mumbai, Mysore, Kolkata, Delhi, Pune.

    Has been regularly performing Rabindra Nritya (dance form developed in Shanitiniketan by Rabindranath Tagore) from a very early age having performed in numerous ballets under the aegis of Shahana, Tagore Centre for Indian Music and Culture, and other cultural organizations

     As Founder & Artistic Director of her dance ensemble Drutam Dance Ideas Lab, she performs regularly for corporates, cultural organizations, and Universities within India and abroad.

     

    Listen to her experience on Meri Kahani with Bhawana Somaaya

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    • 27 min
    Meri Kahani ft. Sachin Dheeraj, Filmmaker

    Meri Kahani ft. Sachin Dheeraj, Filmmaker

    Sachin is a National Award-Winning filmmaker who studied at The University of Texas at Austin as part of their MFA program in Film & Media Production. His work has been screened at prestigious film festivals such as Hot Docs, Raindance, EnergaCAMERIMAGE, and Krakow. He strives to tell stories that demand an urgent conversation and seeks to engage with people, places, and communities that are slowly disappearing. He aims to affirm their existence through cinema by preserving their lives and memories.

    Listen to his experience on Meri Kahani with Bhawana Somaaya

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    • 16 min
    Meri Kahani ft Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, author

    Meri Kahani ft Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, author

    Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta is a writer from Mumbai, India. Her debut book, Rescript Your Life: Awaken The Voice Within You had a powerful message- being unkind to yourself is a form of violence. In the book, she coined the term THECO (The Chosen One), asking her readers to engage in positive self-talk. She followed this up with two biographies; in which her protagonists lived with the  THECO mindset. The first biography, The Stranger in the Mirror, chronicled the life and times of BAFTA nominated Indian producer-director of Rang De Basanti fame, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. The second biography, Sanjeev Kumar-The Actor We All Loved has been an Amazon No.1 bestseller since its pre-order announcement in June 2022. Sanjeev Kumar, one of India’s favorite actors, lived rags to riches story which is the stuff of celluloid dreams.A lifelong communications professional, she started her journey as a writer with the Economic Times in 2001. She has been running The Network, a content writing and advocacy firm for almost two decades. In 2020, she finished her six- nation, decadal study called the Red Dot Experiment about how culture impacts communication.Reeta is passionate about promoting the reading habit. She authored a series titled ‘The Celebrity Bookshelf’ for Amazon Kindle in 2021. She writes columns for CNBCTV18 India and Khaleej times UAE to emphasise the importance of reading.

    Listen to her writing experiences on Meri Kahani with Bhawana Somaaya

     

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    • 22 min

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