Sooni Taraporevala
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Sooni Taraporevala | |
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Born | 1957 (age 66–67) |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation(s) | screenwriter, film director, photographer |
Years active | 1988–present |
Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is an Indian screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker who is the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, all directed by Mira Nair.[1] She also adapted Rohinton Mistry's novel Such A Long Journey and wrote the films Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, her directorial debut Little Zizou, and Yeh Ballet, a Netflix original film that she wrote and directed.[2][3]
Taraporevala wrote the screenplay for and directed her first feature film, Little Zizou (2007), an ensemble piece set in
She was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2014.[7] She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Early life and education
Taraporevala was born to a
Screenplays
Taraporevala wrote the screenplays for Salaam Bombay! and Mississippi Masala, both directed by Mira Nair. Other projects with Nair include the screenplay for My Own Country, based on the book by Abraham Verghese, as well as The Namesake (2006), a cinematic adaptation of Pulitzer–winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake.[7]
Her other produced credits include the film Such a Long Journey based on the novel Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry and directed by Sturla Gunnarson, and the screenplay for the film Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, directed by Jabbar Patel for the Government of India and the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC).[citation needed]
In 2016 she directed a 14-minute documentary virtual reality film
In 2020 she wrote and directed a feature film based on her documentary. The Netflix Original film Yeh Ballet produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur and Roy Kapur Films can be seen on Netflix worldwide.
Photography
In 1982, during a break from college, she met photographer Raghubir Singh, who, after looking at her work, which included photographs of her extended Parsi family, suggested she work on a book about the Parsi community. This started her extensive work of photo documentation of the Parsi community.[9]
...she had the eye, the patience, the empathy of a seasoned portraitist; but she also had something even harder to find — a lifelong, unillusioned, affectionate closeness to an entire community whose numbers were dwindling with every passing year (Pico Iyer, in Home in the City, 2017).[8]
In 2000, she self-published Parsis, the Zoroastrians of India: a photographic journey, 1980-2000 about the traditionally closed off community since their persecution in Persia, the first and only visual documentation of the Parsi community.[15] An updated edition was published in 2004.[16]
Her photographs have been exhibited in India, the US, France and Britain, including London's Tate Modern gallery.[citation needed]
She has had solo shows at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai and the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi. Her work is in the permanent collections of the NGMA Delhi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
In 2017/2018, the
A larger version of Home in the City with 102 photographs was exhibited at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, from 14 through 31 October 2017.[17] An accompanying book, Home in the city: Bombay 1977 – Mumbai 2017, was released with essays by Pico Iyer and Salman Rushdie.[18] It then traveled to the Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts in Altinho, Goa, opening there on 11 November 2017.[citation needed]
Filmography
Year | Film | Director | Writer | Notes |
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1988 | Salaam Bombay![19] | No | Yes | |
1991 | Mississippi Masala[20] | No | Yes | |
1998 | Such a Long Journey[21]
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No | Yes | |
My Own Country | No | Yes | Television film | |
2000 | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar[22] | No | Yes | |
2006 | The Namesake[23] | No | Yes | |
2009 | Little Zizou
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Yes | Yes | |
2020 | Yeh Ballet[24] | Yes | Yes |
Awards
- 1988: Lillian Gish Award with Mira Nair, at the Los Angeles Women in Film Festival, for Excellence in Feature Film, for Salaam Bombay![25]
- 1991: Golden Osella (Best Original Screenplay) 49th Venice International Film Festival: Mississippi Masala[26]
- 2008: Time/Warner Best Screenplay Award at Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council, New York, for Little Zizou
- 2008: Best Director at Mahindra Indo- American Arts Council, New York, for Little Zizou
- 2008: Best Producer at Asian Festival of 1ST Films, Singapore, for Little Zizou
- 2009: Best Director of Experience Section of Levante International Film Festival, Italy, for Little Zizou
- 2009: Audience Choice Award at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, (IFFLA) for Little Zizou
- 2014: Padma Shri by Government of India[27]
- 2020: Filmfare nomination for Best Film Web Original, for Yeh Ballet
Memberships
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2017–present)[28]
- Writers Guild of America (1989–present)
References
- ^ Viets, Alexandra (12 October 1994). "From Hollywood Back to Bombay". The New York Times.
- ISBN 978-1-315-25270-4, retrieved 6 December 2020
- ^ R.M. Vijayakar. "Sooni Taraporevala's 'Yeh Ballet' Nominated for Flyx Filmfare Awards". India West. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ "The Serious Laugh Junkie". Tehelka. 7 March 2009. Archived from the original on 30 June 2010.
- CNN-IBN. 27 February 2009. Archived from the originalon 11 January 2012.
- ^ Ramachandran, Smriti Kak (19 March 2010). "President confers 56th National Film Awards". The Hindu.
- ^ a b Das, Soma (16 October 2015). "'Life's all about taking risks' : Filmmaker-author Sooni Taraporevala". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ ISBN 9789352773152.
- ^ a b Tree A. Palmedo (30 October 2012). "Portrait of an Artist: Sooni Taraporevala". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- ^ "Biography". Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
- ^ "I was called a rudderless ship". Tehelka. 16 October 2004. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012.
- ^ Sooni was everywhere, doing everything! Rediff.com, 6 April 2001.
- ^ "Iyanah Bativala". IMDb. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ^ "Yeh Ballet". YouTube. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021.
- OCLC 46352914.
- OCLC 1029371098.
- ^ Rodgers, Barry (12 October 2017). "From Bombay to Mumbai: Sooni Taraporevala's photographic tribute to the city she loves". Architectural Digest. India. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ISBN 9789352773152.
- ^ "Godrej Typewriter Factory, Bombay". www.metmuseum.org.
- Internet Movie Database.
- ^ "Sooni Taraporevala: Have shown religious harmony subtly in Yeh Ballet". outlookindia.com.
- S2CID 216136386
- ^ "The story of an iconic Indian family photograph". BBC News. 28 June 2016.
- Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Salaam Bombay! - IMDb, retrieved 23 March 2023
- ^ "Venice Film Festival (1991)". IMDb. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ^ "Padma Awards Announced". Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs. 25 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ "Academy invites record 774 new members; 39 percent female, 30 percent people color". The Hollywood Reporter. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
External links
Biography:
- Official Website
- Trailer of upcoming documentary on Taraporevala
- SAWNET biography
- Sooni Taraporevala at IMDb
- http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/10/30/sooni-taraporevala-parsis-zizou/ at The Harvard Crimson
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/719511 at THE MET
- https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/VcDlKlKfiCz3SFxHE6TBrM/Sooni-Taraporevala-To-Bombay-with-love.html at Mint
- http://www.gallerychemould.com/exhibitions/sooni-taraporevala-bombay-mumbai-black-white-photographs/ Archived 6 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- https://thewire.in/culture/bombay-mumbai-seen-sooni-taraporewalas-sharp-eye at THE WIRE
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