Anupama Chopra is an Indian author, journalist, film critic and director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
23 Facts About Anupama Chopra
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Anupama Chopra is the founder and editor of the digital platform Film Companion, which offers a curated look at cinema.
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Anupama Chopra has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV, 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 is the festival director of Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image.
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Anupama Chopra's grandfather, originally from Delhi, was an executive with Union Carbide, 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 Nepean Sea Road 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 Shyam Benegal to become the chairperson of the Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image.
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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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Anupama Chopra is married to Vidhu Vinod Anupama Chopra, a Hindi Film producer and director.
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Anupama Chopra's son Agni Dev Chopra is an aspiring cricketer.