12 Facts About Renu Saluja

Renu Saluja's work encompassed multiple feature films, documentaries, short films, and television series.

Renu Saluja applied to the direction program at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune in 1974, but was not accepted and ended up on the editing program instead.

Renu Saluja graduated in 1976 and began a career as a film editor in India, a field dominated by men at the time.

Renu Saluja first edited Vidhu Vinod Chopra's diploma film, Murder at Monkey Hill, for which she received an Associate Director credit.

Once out of the FTII, Renu Saluja made her debut with classmate Saeed Akhtar Mirza's Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai, followed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Sazaye Maut, then another classmate Kundan Shah's comedy, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, where her work received critical acclaim.

The first offer that Renu Saluja got from outside the circle of FTII filmmakers was Govind Nihalani's Ardh Satya, filmed in 1983.

Chopra's Parinda was among the first mainstream films that Renu Saluja edited, and she assisted direction.

Some well-known films edited by Renu Saluja include Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, Bandit Queen, Jaya Ganga, Pardes, Rockford and Hey Ram.

Renu Saluja's elder sister Radha Saluja was a film actress, who worked in numerous Hindi, Punjabi and other regional films, and younger sister Dr Kumkum Khadalia is a plastic surgeon.

Renu Saluja married director Vidhu Vinod Chopra, a fellow FTII alumnus when they graduated in 1976.

Renu Saluja died in Mumbai, on 16 August 2000, after a long bout of stomach cancer.

In June 2009, GRAFTII, an Alumni Association of the FTII and E-City ventures, held a tribute festival of her films, including a documentary in which all the directors Renu Saluja worked with shared their memories of her.