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Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is an Indian screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker who is the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, all directed by Mira Nair.
Sooni Taraporevala was born and schooled in Bombay, India. In 1975 she received a scholarship to attend Harvard University as an undergraduate. At Harvard she studied English Literature, Film and Photography.
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Learn about Sooni Taraporevala's book Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India, which documents the Bombay Parsi community through her lens. She also shares her insights on her film career, the Parsi identity, and the Taj Mahal IMAX project.
Sooni Taraporevala. Writer: Yeh Ballet. Born in 1957 in Bombay but educated in the States in film and photography at New York University, Sooni Taraporevala is one of India's pre-eminent scenarists and has also worked as a freelance still photographer One of her works is a coffee table book on the Zoroastrian Parsi people of her country, about ...
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Sooni Taraporevala (b. 1957, Bombay) received a scholarship to attend Harvard University, where she studied English Literature, Film and Photography. After her BA, she enrolled in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University for her MA.
Sooni Taraporevala and her work never align itself with convention. The filmmaker, screenwriter, and photographer has a knack for taking the unconventional path, the latest being Yeh Ballet. We...
