1. Anupama Vinod Chopra is an Indian author, journalist and film critic who served as the festival director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival from 2015 to 2023.
23 Facts About Anupama Chopra
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Anupama Chopra is the founder and editor of the now-defunct digital platform Film Companion, which offered a curated look at cinema with an emphasis on Indian film.
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Anupama Chopra has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV and India Today, as well as the Hindustan Times.
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Anupama Chopra hosted a weekly film review show, The Front Row With Anupama Chopra, on Star World.
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Anupama Chopra won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema for her first book Sholay: The Making of a Classic.
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Anupama Chopra's grandfather, originally from Delhi, was an executive with Union Carbide in Kolkata.
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Anupama Chopra's mother, Kamna Chandra, was a scriptwriter who wrote dialogue for such films as Prem Rog and Chandni.
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Anupama Chopra grew up with her brother and sister in Mumbai, where her family lived in the Nepean Sea Road neighbourhood, and then in Cuffe Parade.
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Anupama Chopra's sister, Tanuja Chandra, is an Indian film director and screenwriter; her brother, Vikram Chandra, is a novelist, who splits his time between California and India.
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Anupama Chopra lived in Hong Kong for several years as a teenager.
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Anupama Chopra graduated from St Xavier's College, Mumbai with a BA in English Literature in 1987.
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Later, Anupama Chopra earned her MA in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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Anupama Chopra won the Harrington Award for "academic excellence and promise for success in the field of magazine journalism" while at Medill.
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Anupama Chopra's 2011 book First Day First Show: Writings from the Bollywood Trenches, is a compilation of her articles on Hindi cinema over two decades, published by Penguin India.
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Anupama Chopra's work has been published in India Today, India's largest English-language magazine.
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Anupama Chopra hosted film review show, Picture This on NDTV 24X7 news channel.
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Anupama Chopra's latest book, The Front Row: Conversations on Cinema published by HarperCollins is a collection of her televised interviews with both Indian Film and Hollywood personalities.
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Anupama Chopra is actively involved in works related to film festivals happening in India.
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In November 2014, Anupama Chopra replaced Srinivasan Narayanan to become the festival director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image.
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Anupama Chopra remained in this role until June 2024, when she stepped down and was replaced by interim festival director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.
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In July 2014, Anupama Chopra founded the website Film Companion as a pan-India platform for entertainment journalism.
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In July 2024, Anupama Chopra announced that she was moving on and that the Film Companion, site was closing down.
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Anupama Chopra is married to Vidhu Vinod Anupama Chopra, a producer and director of Hindi films.