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With Sweetiee weds NRI, short film producer Cyrus Dastur has made his foray into Bollywood
Mehroo Kotval

"We’re already producing short films very actively, now it’s time to make feature films too,” says Cyrus Dastur (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Shamiana Short Films (SSF), Shamiana Education and Shamiana Cine Café (see "Dastur’s digital discoveries,” Parsiana, October 21, 2015). The producer moved into the genre of commercial Hindi cinema with his first feature film Sweetiee Weds NRI [(Non-resident Indian) (SWN)] that released all over India on June 2, 2017. A short film spans 90 seconds or even half an hour while Bollywood is known to entertain for three hours plus. Dastur put together this two-hour romantic......



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