ASIA HOUSE PAN-ASIA FILM SERIES- Life Goes On, Film screening and Q&A with Sangeeta Datta and Javed Akhtar July 2, 2010

Special screening of Sangeeta Datta’s sumptuous new family drama Life Goes On. The film is a freewheeling British-Asian adaptation of the King Lear fable, a gripping emotional drama of generational conflict set in contemporary London, starring a range of Indian talent including Om Puri, Sharmila Tagore, Girish Karnad and Bollywood star Soha Ali Khan. The film features a rich and vibrant soundtrack composed by Soumik Datta with legendary Bollywood script writer and song writer Javed Akhtar working as a script consultant and lyricist. Javed Akhtar joins director Sangeeta Datta for a special post-screening Q&A.