From Silver Screen To Digital Devices: Indian Actresses Above 40 Reclaim Their Space
The show touches upon the lives of five modern Indian women in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, as they navigate through their ambitions, desires, and vulnerability. In the past year or so, several Indian female actors have made their comebacks as lead heroines. “Because of streaming platforms, people are willing to experiment and are writing roles for older women,” Gupta told Zenger News. Lara Dutta, 42, Miss Universe 2000, has starred in several hit Bollywood films like “No Entry” (2005) and “Don 2” (2011). Shrivastava also directed the 2016 film “Lipstick Under My Burkha”, one of the first few Bollywood films with a female-led ensemble.
thewestsidegazette.comRobin Wright on directing "Land," a film about human kindness
CBS NewsWright's latest character is a broken women who abandons everything she knows, and retreats to a mountaintop, in her new film, "Land." "And I just wanted to make a film about human kindness." Wright not only stars in the film, she directs it, too. Director-actor Robin Wright on location filming her feature directorial debut, "Land." Wright said, "When you're raped in that country, you're disowned by your family because it's your fault.
cbsnews.comRobin Wright on directing "Land," a film about human kindness
Robin Wright on directing "Land," a film about human kindness After six years of shooting "House of Cards," actress Robin Wright undertook her first feature film as a director about as far from a soundstage as one could get – in the remote Rocky Mountains, playing a woman who runs from a personal tragedy, only to face solitude and danger in an isolated cabin. Wright talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about "Land"; her portrayals of strong, independent women; and her work to aid women brutalized by sexual violence.
cbsnews.com"Sunday Morning" Full Episode 2/7
"Sunday Morning" Full Episode 2/7 Hosted by Jane Pauley. In our cover story, Rita Braver looks into the growing fascination with astrology. Plus: Allison Aubrey checks out how football stadiums are being turned into vaccination megasites; Lee Cowan talks with Robin Wright about her feature film directing debut, "Land"; Tracy Smith profiles Steve Yeun, star of the new film, "Minari"; Luke Burbank visits with NFL player-turned-chef Eddie Jackson; David Pogue finds out how nearly-empty NFL stadiums are made to sound filled to capacity; Jim Gaffigan tells us whom he's rooting for in Sunday's Super Bowl matchup; and Conor Knighton travels deep inside Oregon's Malheur National Forest in search of a humongous fungus.
cbsnews.comThis week on "Sunday Morning" (February 7)
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cbsnews.com‘Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom dead at 77
FAIRHOPE, Ala. – Winston Groom, the writer whose novel “Forrest Gump” was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at age 77. “While he will be remembered for creating Forrest Gump, Winston Groom was a talented journalist & noted author of American history. “It touched a nerve,” Groom told the Tuscaloosa News in 2014. They “took some of the rough edges off,” Groom told the New York Times in 1994. Groom got $350,000 for the rights to “Forrest Gump” plus 3% of the net profit of the movie.