22 Facts About Shonali Bose

Shonali Bose was born on 3 June 1965 and is an Indian film director, writer and film producer.

Shonali Bose then worked as the assistant director for the 2012 war film Chittagong, which she co-wrote.

Shonali Bose is an active philanthropist and supports various charitable organisations.

Shonali Bose was married to filmmaker Bedabrata Pain, but the couple separated following the death of their son.

Shonali Bose was born on 3 June 1965 in Calcutta, West Bengal, and spent most of her young adult life in Mumbai and New Delhi.

Shonali Bose earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Delhi University and master's degree in political science from Columbia University, New York.

Shonali Bose has been an activist since her time at Miranda House in Delhi University.

Shonali Bose was involved in theatre as an actor throughout school and college.

Shonali Bose did not originally plan to be involved in film, however she saw it as a better outlet for activism after realizing how far removed her Ph.

Shonali Bose worked as an organizer for the National Lawyers Guild for about a year.

Shonali Bose directed live community television in Manhattan before joining the MFA Directing Program at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Early in her career, Shonali Bose directed such short films as The Gendarme Is Here and Undocumented, and the feature-length documentary Lifting the Veil; the productions were screened at numerous film festivals.

Shonali Bose made her feature film debut with the 2005 drama Amu; she had written the production's screenplay.

Shonali Bose won several national and international awards for the film, including the FIPRESCI Critics Award, the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English and the Gollapudi Srinivas Award for Best Debut Director.

Shonali Bose wrote the novel Amu, which based on the screenplay which released simultaneously with the film.

Shonali Bose co-wrote the Bedabrata Pain directed film Chittagong, a period drama that chronicles the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid.

Shonali Bose had begun working on the script a year after the death of her son; the film's initial draft won the Sundance Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award, at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2019, Shonali Bose has written and directed The Sky Is Pink, a film based on the motivational speaker Aisha Chaudhary, starring Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar and Zaira Wasim.

Shonali Bose directed the short Raat Rani, featuring Fatima Sana Shaikh, for the 2022 anthology Modern Love: Mumbai.

Shonali Bose has committed to write the pilot episode for an untitled television series based on Diksha Basu's novel The Windfall.

Shonali Bose was married to Bedabrata Pain but is separated.

The couple's son Ishan Shonali Bose-Pain died on 13 September 2010 at age 16.