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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 ...
- Indian
- 1988–present
- screenwriter, film director, photographer
- 1957 (age 65–66), Mumbai
Learn about the Indian-born screenwriter, director and photographer Sooni Taraporevala, who has written and produced screenplays for Mira Nair and other studios, and photographed Bombay/Mumbai for over four decades. Find out her awards, achievements, publications and personal details.
Jun 28, 2016 · Indian writer and photographer Sooni Taraporevala, best known as the screenwriter of The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay, took a picture of her family in a Mumbai balcony 31 years ago.
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Sooni Taraporevala is an acclaimed photographer and screenwriter who documents Bombay's Parsi community in her book Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India-- A Photographic Journey. She shares her personal and professional journey, from photography to film, and her views on the Parsi community, its culture, and its challenges.
Oct 30, 2012 · Sooni Taraporevala ’79-’80 returned to Harvard for the opening of her photography exhibit "Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India," which gives an inside look at the Parsi community to which she ...
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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 ...
