Vikrant Massey and Kalki Koechlin in A Death in the Gunj by Konkona Sen Sharma

One of the great passions of my life is to present Indian films to audiences at home and overseas, and guide them to appreciate our films better. It's always a great learning for me to know how our films are received overseas. I've been in London this last week on the invitation of the British Film Institute (BFI) to introduce the latest season of films I have curated as Guest Curator, India on Film, for BFI. India on Film is a year-long season of Indian and South Asian films that I have curated, that screens from March to December 2017, at BFI Southbank in London. A landmark event, it is the biggest overseas programme of Indian films in the last 15 years. The seasons include Bollywood 2.0, which was on independent tendencies in mainstream cinema; Music in Indian Cinema; the current season is Women Directors Making Waves; there will be a Partition season in August, and a final year-end season. The BFI also has a number of related programmes, including screenings of Shiraz by Franz Osten (1928), an early silent Indo-British-German co-production, that will have live music accompaniment composed by Anoushka Shankar, as well as nearly 300 films shot in India from 1899-1947, that will be available online on BFI Player.