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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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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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Feb 21, 2020 · A coming-of-age film about two male ballet dancers, Sooni Taraporevala was so inspired by these boys that she told their story twice. By Mihika Agarwal. 21 February 2020. Netflix. Take a closer look at the films that have dominated box offices in recent times, and you’ll spot class struggle being a common theme.
Taraporevala is a photographer, filmmaker, and screenwriter best known for writing Salaam Bombay (1988), Mississippi Masala (1991), and The Namesake (2006), all directed by Mira Nair. In the early 1980s, Taraporevala began photographing Mumbai’s small but vibrant Parsi community, to which her family belongs.
