Sooni Taraporevala

Sooni Taraporevala is best known as the screenwriter for the Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay! and Mississippi Masala, both directed by Mira Nair. However, she is also a professional photographer.

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Screenwriter - Oscar - Mira Nair

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Taraporevala is a Parsi residing in Bombay, India. She is a graduate of Harvard University (where she met Nair as an undergraduate, leading to their longtime creative collaboration) at New York University.

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Parsi - Bombay - India - Harvard University - New York University

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Ms. Taraporevala wrote the screenplays for the Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, both directed by Mira Nair. Her 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. She also wrote the screenplay for My Own Country, based on the book by Abraham Verghese and directed by Mira Nair for Showtime television. Finally, she wrote the screenplay for the film Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, directed by Dr. Jabbar Patel for the Government of India and the National Film Development Corporation of India.

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Salaam Bombay - Mississippi Masala - Mira Nair - Such a Long Journey - Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry - My Own Country - Abraham Verghese - Showtime - Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar - Jabbar Patel

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Her photographs have been exhibited in India, the US, France and Britain, including London?s Tate Modern gallery. In addition, in Fall 2004, Ms. Taraporevala released a coffeetable photography book, a 24-year labor of love on India's Parsi community, entitled Parsis: the Zoroastrians of India - A Photographic Journey (Overlook Press, ISBN 1-58567-593-8). She had previously self-published the book in India in 2000 but it sold out in just a few months. The book received glowing advance praise from film director Mira Nair, Harvard literature professor and noted postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha, acclaimed writers Rohinton Mistry and Bapsi Sidhwa and conductor Zubin Mehta.

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France - Britain - London - Tate Modern - Parsi - Mira Nair - Homi K. Bhabha - Rohinton Mistry - Bapsi Sidhwa - Zubin Mehta

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As of 2005, Ms. Taporevala is currently adapting Tony Kushner?s play Homebody/Kabul for Mira Nair and HBO, Hari Kunzru?s novel The Impressionist for Mira Nair and Fox Searchlight. She is also adapting Pulitzer-prize winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri?s latest novel, The Namesake, into the film,

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Tony Kushner - Mira Nair - HBO - Hari Kunzru - The Impressionist - Fox Searchlight - Pulitzer-prize - Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake

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The Namesake, for Mira Nair.

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The Namesake - Mira Nair

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