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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 ...
About. Sooni Taraporevala was born and schooled in Bombay, India. In 1975 she received a scholarship to attend Harvard University as an undergraduate. . At Harvard she studied English Literature, Film and Photography. After her BA from Harvard she received her MA in Cinema Studies (Film Theory and Criticism) from New York University ...
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Jun 28, 2016 · Evenings at Cozy Building, Bombay, 1982. Indian writer and photographer Sooni Taraporevala, best known as the screenwriter of The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay, took a picture of her ...
Sooni Taraporevala. Writer: Little Zizou. 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 ...
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Learn about Sooni Taraporevala's book Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India, which documents the Bombay Parsi community through her lens. She also shares her insights on her film career, the Parsi identity, and the Taj Mahal IMAX project.
Taraporevala is a photographer, filmmaker, and screenwriter best known for writing Salaam Bombay (1988), Mississippi Masala (1991), and The Namesake (2006), all directed by Mira Nair. In the early 1980s, Taraporevala began photographing Mumbai’s small but vibrant Parsi community, to which her family belongs. Followers of the ancient ...
