Nasreen Munni Kabir

Nasreen Munni Kabir is a UK-based documentary filmmaker and author who has produced over eighty television programmes on Hindi cinema for Channel 4 and written more than fifteen books on the subject. Jiya Jale: The Stories of Songs, published by Speaking Tiger in 2018, records her conversations with the lyricist and filmmaker Gulzar on the creative origins of his most celebrated songs, from the 1960s to the 2010s. It is her second book on Gulzar, following In the Company of a Poet (2012). Kabir is the recipient of the 1999 Women of Achievement Award in Arts and Culture in the UK and has served on the board of the British Film Institute.