Named in honor of Shekhar Kapur (1945– ), Indian actor and Bombay film director whose recent acclaim has put “Bollywood� on the international map. The 800 feature films produced annually in Bombay represent nearly 20 percent of the world’ total — and are twice as many as come from Hollywood. Kapur’ 1998 movie Elizabeth received seven Oscar and 12 British Academy nominations. The showing of his 1994 movie The Bandit Queen, a true story about a low-caste woman who fought back after being gang-raped and was eventually elected to the Indian parliament, was initially banned in India. (M 34629) _ _.
