Sooni Taraporevala

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. She also adapted Rohinton Mistry's novel Such A Long Journey and wrote the films Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, her directorial debut Little Zizou, and Yeh Ballet, a Netflix original film that she wrote and directed.Taraporevala wrote the screenplay for and directed her first feature film, Little Zizou (2007), an ensemble piece set in Mumbai. This film explores issues facing the Parsi community to which she belongs. It went on to win the Silver Lotus Award (2009) at the National Film Awards for Best Film on Family Values.She was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2014. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Biography:

Official Website

Trailer of upcoming documentary on Taraporevala

SAWNET biography

Sooni Taraporevala at IMDb

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/10/30/sooni-taraporevala-parsis-zizou/ at The Harvard Crimson

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/719511 at THE MET

https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/VcDlKlKfiCz3SFxHE6TBrM/Sooni-Taraporevala-To-Bombay-with-love.html at Mint

http://www.gallerychemould.com/exhibitions/sooni-taraporevala-bombay-mumbai-black-white-photographs/ Archived 6 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine

https://thewire.in/culture/bombay-mumbai-seen-sooni-taraporewalas-sharp-eye at THE WIREMisc.:

NPR radio feature at Npr

Iranian.com feature

St Louis Post-Dispatch- NYTimes wire story