Anjali Menon is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema.
22 Facts About Anjali Menon
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Anjali Menon is counted among the change agents in Indian cinema whose work gets attention from the audience and the critics.
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Anjali Menon is the founder of Little Films a film company based in Mumbai and Kerala that produces fiction and non-fiction works.
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Anjali Menon is one of the founders of the Women in Cinema Collective, an organization that focuses on gender equality in the Malayalam film industry.
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Anjali Menon is the board member of Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image.
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Anjali Menon was born in Kozhikode to T M Nair and Sarada Nair.
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Anjali Menon spent her childhood in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and travelled annually to India.
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Alumna of London Film School, Anjali Menon postgraduated with Honors in Film Direction, Film Producing and Film Editing in 2003.
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Anjali Menon started her career by editing and assisting producers in the making of educational documentaries.
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Anjali Menon took up event photography and feature writing for journals.
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Anjali Menon received Kerala State Film Award for Best Screenplay for the movie.
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Anjali Menon wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues of the critically and commercially acclaimed Ustad Hotel, directed by Anwar Rasheed.
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Anjali Menon won the Best Writer awards at Asianet Film Awards and Vanitha Film Awards.
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In 2014 Anjali Menon wrote and directed Bangalore Days, revolving around the life of three Malayali cousins who move to Bangalore, which became a huge commercial success and which identified her as a commercially successful filmmaker who made sensible cinema.
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Anjali Menon is a motivational speaker who addresses subjects related to filmmaking, community, gender empowerment, entrepreneurship and parenting at venues like TED, TISS, TIE Global, CII, KSUM, and IGCE.
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Anjali Menon has been a jury member for IFFK, MAMI, IFP and Filmfare awards.
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Anjali Menon has published short stories, screenplays and articles and she blogs about her worldviews [1].
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Anjali Menon is on the Board of Trustees of MAMI - Mumbai Academy of Moving Images and a General Council Member of the Kerala Chalachithra Academy.
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Anjali Menon's movies have depicted themes of family, migrant experience, gender and cross-cultural interactions.
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Anjali Menon has mentioned Mira Nair, Padmarajan, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Robert Altman, Gulzar, and Marion Hansel as her inspirations, in pursuing film-making.
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Anjali Menon portrays stories of non-resident Indians in her work and referred to her reverse migrant identity and hybrid sensibility in her work as an advantage.
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Anjali Menon is vocal about the need for gender equality in the workplace and sensitivity in on-screen portrayals.