Mysore/Mysuru: The fourth edition of Mysuru Literature Festival-2020 organised by Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs-2015 being held virtually on every weekend from Aug. 14, will conclude on Sept. 5. This edition has a wide range of authors and speakers as Panellists.  Today, SOM features tomorrow’s Panellist Nandita Das and Moderator Kavitha Lankesh.

Date: AUGUST 29;  Time: 6.30 pm; Panel: Feisty and Fearless

Nandita Das (Panellist)

Nandita Das is an actor, director and an activist all rolled into one. She is well-known for her award-winning performances on the screen, as for her campaigns for social justice, gender equality and human rights. She blazed into Bollywood in 1996 with Deepa Mehta’s film ‘Fire’ with the legendary Shabana Azmi as a co-actor. Along with path-breaking films like ‘Earth,’ Fire’ and ‘Bawander,’ she had a brief stint in mainstream in ‘Aks’ with Amitabh Bachchan. Apart from acting, Nandita is also a big name in the field of direction and writes her own scripts. Both ‘Firaaq’ and the more recent ‘Manto’ have done excellently abroad. A committed activist, Nandita Das was a part of street theatre in Delhi, an outspoken critic of colourism much before the recent hoopla surrounding fairness creams. A subject which is so relevant in our country where colour bias is widely prevalent. Born to artistically inclined parents, Nandita stands apart with her immense talent and her voice of support to several burning issues that plague us today.

Kavitha Lankesh (Moderator)

Kavitha Lankesh, popular director and producer, hails from a prominent family of journalists and media publishers. Her father P. Lankesh founded the highly successful weekly tabloid ‘Lankesh Patrike.’ Kavitha holds Master’s in English Literature and a diploma in Advertising. She started her career as a corporate and documentary film-maker and went on to make feature films. Her directorial films are ‘Deveeri,’ ‘Tananam Tananam,’ ‘Crazy Loka’ and ‘Preethi Prema Pranaya.’ Some of her films have won several international, national and State awards. Her commercial hits have run over 100 days in theatres. Kavitha has written, scripted and directed fifty-plus corporate films and documentaries and nine full length feature films.

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