1. Sai Paranjpye was born on 19 March 1938 and is an Indian movie director and screenwriter.
21 Facts About Sai Paranjpye
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Sai Paranjpye is the director of the award-winning movies Sparsh, Katha, Chasme Buddoor and Disha.
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Sai Paranjpye has written and directed many Marathi plays such as Jaswandi, Sakkhe Shejari, and Albel.
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Sai Paranjpye has won 4 National Film Awards and 2 Filmfare awards.
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Sai Paranjpye was born on 19 March 1938 in Mumbai to Russian Youra Sleptzoff and Shakuntala Paranjpye.
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Sai Paranjpye's mother raised Sai in the household of her own father, Sir R P Paranjpye, who was a renowned mathematician and educationist and who served from 1944 to 1947 as India's High Commissioner in Australia.
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Sai Paranjpye thus grew up and received education in many cities in India, including Pune, and for a few years in Canberra, Australia.
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Sai Paranjpye graduated from the National School of Drama, New Delhi in 1963.
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Sai Paranjpye started her career in All India Radio in Pune, Maharashtra, India as an announcer and soon got involved with AIR's Children's Program.
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Sai Paranjpye has written and directed six feature films, two children's films, and five documentaries.
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Sai Paranjpye has written many books for children, and six of them have won national or state level awards.
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Sai Paranjpye worked for many years as a director or a producer with Doordarshan Television in Delhi.
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Sai Paranjpye made four children's films for CFSI, including the award-winning Jadoo Ka Shankh and Sikandar.
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Sai Paranjpye next made the TV serials Ados Pados and Chhote Bade.
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Sai Paranjpye worked as director, writer and narrator for the Marathi drama Maza khel mandu de.
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Sai Paranjpye made the serials Hum Panchi Ek Chawl Ke, Partyana and Behnaa.
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Sai Paranjpye has written and staged plays like Maza Khel Mandu De, Jaswandi and Sakhe Shejari.
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Sai Paranjpye directed several documentary movies, including Helping Hand, Talking Books, Capt.
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In 2001, Sai Paranjpye made the movie for children, Bhago Bhoot.
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Sai Paranjpye headed the jury in the feature film category of the 55th National Film Awards for 2007.
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Sai Paranjpye was married to theater artist Arun Joglekar; they had a son, Gautam, and a daughter, Winnie.