Deepa Gahlot is a journalist, critic, columnist, editor, and author. She has won the National Award for Best Film Criticism (1998) and her work has appeared in several anthologies ‒ Bollywood Popular Indian Cinema, Behind the Scenes of Hindi Cinema: A Visual Journey through the Heart of Bollywood, Janani and Bollywood’s Top 20: Superstars of Indian Cinema. Her publications include The Prithviwallahs (co-authored with Shashi Kapoor), and biographies of Shah Rukh Khan (2007) and Shammi Kapoor (2008), Take 2: 50 Films that Deserve a New Audience (2015) and Sheroes: 25 Daring Women of Bollywood (2015). She currently heads the Theatre and Film Department of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai.
Year: 2016