- Born in 1957 in Bombay but educated in the States in film and photography at New York University, Sooni Taraporevala is one of India's pre-eminent scenarists and has also worked as a freelance still photographer One of her works is a coffee table book on the Zoroastrian Parsi people of her country, about whom she also directed an award winning family comedy, Little Zizou.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lawrence Chadbourne
- Sooni Taraporevala was born and schooled in Bombay, India. She received a scholarship to attend Harvard University, where she studied English Literature, Film and Photography. She received her BA from Harvard, her MA in Cinema Studies from New York University after which she returned to India to work as a freelance still photographer. The author of a seminal photography book PARSIS A Photographic Journey, her photos are in collections and museums worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her second photography book HOME IN THE CITY, Bombay 1977-Mumbai 2017 was published by Harper Collins. She wrote and directed her first feature film, LITTLE ZIZOU which won the National Award from the Indian government for Best Film on Family Values, as well as ten other international awards. Sooni's second feature-length directorial venture YEH BALLET was picked up by Netflix to be a leading piece on its direct-to-digital feature slate. Produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur it was critically acclaimed and also noticed and lauded by Reed Hastings & Salman Rushdie. Her first screenplay, SALAAM BOMBAY! began her long association with award- winning director-producer Mira Nair. The film was nominated for an Academy award, won more than twenty-!I've awards worldwide, and earned Taraporevala the Lillian Gish Award from Women in Film, Los Angeles. Her second screenplay, MISSISSIPPI MASALA also for Mira Nair, was made into a film starring Denzel Washington for which Taraporevala won the Osella award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival. She also wrote the screenplays for THE NAMESAKE, SUCH A LONG JOURNEY, DR BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR and co-wrote MY OWN COUNTRY. Amongst her other numerous screenplay credits and accolades, she was conferred the Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian honors in the country, by the President of India in 2014.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sooni Taraporevala
- SpouseDr. Firdaus Bativala
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