Sooni Taraporevala adapted Rohinton Mistry's novel Such A Long Journey wrote the films Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar her directorial debut Little Zizou as well as her latest film Yeh Ballet A Netflix Original that she wrote and directed.
15 Facts About Sooni Taraporevala
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Sooni Taraporevala was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2014.
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Sooni Taraporevala is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Sooni Taraporevala's photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Sooni Taraporevala was born to a Parsi family in Mumbai in 1957.
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Sooni Taraporevala's granduncle had been a studio photographer in Bombay, and her father Rumi had been an amateur photographer.
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Sooni Taraporevala completed her schooling from Queen Mary School, Mumbai.
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Sooni Taraporevala received a full scholarship to attend Harvard University as an undergraduate, where with a loan from a roommate she bought a Nikkormat camera, which was stolen upon her return to Bombay in the 1980s.
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Sooni Taraporevala met Mira Nair as an undergraduate, leading to their longtime creative collaboration.
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Sooni Taraporevala returned to Los Angeles in 1988 and worked as a screenwriter, writing commissioned screenplays for a wide variety of studios including Universal, HBO and Disney.
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Sooni Taraporevala moved back to India for good in 1992 where she lives with her husband Firdaus Batlivala and children Jahan and Iyanah.
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Sooni Taraporevala's other produced credits include the film Such a Long Journey based on the novel Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry and directed by Sturla Gunnarson, and the screenplay for the film Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, directed by Jabbar Patel for the Government of India and the National Film Development Corporation of India.
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Sooni Taraporevala's photographs have been exhibited in India, the US, France and Britain, including London's Tate Modern gallery.
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Sooni Taraporevala has had solo shows at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi.
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Sooni Taraporevala's work is in the permanent collections of the NGMA Delhi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.