the ukindia year of culture kicked off with a grand reception at buckingham palace by queen elizabeth which was also attended by prince william and kate among other royals the cream of sports fashion the arts and showbusiness from india and of indianorigin was invited to celebrate indobritish ties among the guests was sitarist anoushka shankar gurinder chadha asif kapadia kunal nayyar manish arora sabyasachi mukherjee kamal haasan and kapil dev from london anoushka tells us it was really lovely it was nice to see a selection of people from india and of indianorigin from here all in one room about meeting the queen with her mother sukanya and her husband filmmaker joe wright she says there was a queue to meet the queen shes amazing she was standing for so long meeting everyone shaking everyones hand one by one very quickly when our turn came i told her that i had met her when i was a little girl with my father and she asked who my father was and then suddenly she broke the queue and spoke with us for a few minutes she had some lovely memories of my fathers performance he had done a private concert for the royal family when i was seven or eight she was speaking with my mum very warmly did she meet any other interesting people there were lots of people i know from different walks of life it was interesting meeting asif kapadia joe was very much there as my husband that night and i finally found asif someone that he knew from long back it was nice to get to know him a little bit and it was nice seeing manish arora who is a friend of mine after a long time she saysanoushka shankar and her mother sukanya with queen elizabeth at the buckingham palace reception anoushka shankar and her mother sukanya with queen elizabeth at the buckingham palace reception as part of the year of culture the british film institute bfi is restoring the 1928 silent film shiraz which tells the tale of the building of the taj mahal the indobritishgerman production was made by and stars the iconic himanshu rai and now anoushka is composing the background score for its restored version im really excited about that she says this whole event at the palace was kicking off the year of culture between india and the uk there are various things going on and one of them is that the bfi is also focusing very much on india their big premiere will be the restoration of shiraz and theyve commissioned me to write a new score for it so im really excited and really nervous because writing a score for a silent film its a really big solid piece of music after this she adds shes very open to doing music for more films and also reveals she has collaborated with arijit singh for a song for an indian film though she cant say