Shonali Bose
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Shonali Bose is an Indian film director, screenriter and producer. She is known for her film Amu
which explores the suppressed history of the genocidal attacks on Sikhs in Delhi twenty-five years ago.
. She has been an activist since her student days at Miranda House
College. She earned her Bachelors of Arts degree from Delhi University and Masters Degree in Political Science
from Columbia University
, New York. She was also involved in theater as an actor throughout school and college.
, and directed live community television in Manhattan
before embarking on the MFA Directing Program at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Her short narrative films The Gendarme Is Here and Undocumented and feature-length documentary Lifting the Veil have screened in festivals and other venues throughout the world.
Amu
is her feature film debut which she had written, produced and directed. Amu released in India in January 2005 receiving popular and critical acclaim. It then went on to premier at the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals amongst many other international festivals. Bose has won 7 national and international awards for Amu including the FIPRESCI
Critics Award, National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English
and Gollapudi Srinivas Award
for best first-time director.
She has also written the book Amu based on the screenplay which released simultaneously with the film, making her the first Indian to do so.
Her upcoming movie is Chittagong Strike One, directed by her husband Bedabrato Pain which is about the Chittagong armoury raid
of 1930. The film stars Manoj Bajpai
as Masterda Surya Sen
.
Amu (film)
Amu is a critically acclaimed 2005 film directed by Shonali Bose, based on her own novel by the same name. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Brinda Karat, and Ankur Khanna...
which explores the suppressed history of the genocidal attacks on Sikhs in Delhi twenty-five years ago.
Early life
Shonali hails from Calcutta, and grew up in Bombay and DelhiDelhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
. She has been an activist since her student days at Miranda House
Miranda House
Miranda House , is a highly renowned and distinguished constituent college for women at the University of Delhi in India. It is widely regarded as a Premier Women's Institution of Delhi University offering degrees in the Sciences and Liberal Arts . Miranda House has demonstrated academic...
College. She earned her Bachelors of Arts degree from Delhi University and Masters Degree in Political Science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, New York. She was also involved in theater as an actor throughout school and college.
Career
Shonali had worked for a year as an organizer at the National Lawyers GuildNational Lawyers Guild
The National Lawyers Guild is an advocacy group in the United States "dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system . ....
, and directed live community television in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
before embarking on the MFA Directing Program at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Her short narrative films The Gendarme Is Here and Undocumented and feature-length documentary Lifting the Veil have screened in festivals and other venues throughout the world.
Amu
Amu (film)
Amu is a critically acclaimed 2005 film directed by Shonali Bose, based on her own novel by the same name. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Brinda Karat, and Ankur Khanna...
is her feature film debut which she had written, produced and directed. Amu released in India in January 2005 receiving popular and critical acclaim. It then went on to premier at the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals amongst many other international festivals. Bose has won 7 national and international awards for Amu including the FIPRESCI
FIPRESCI
The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...
Critics Award, National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English
The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English winners:-References:*...
and Gollapudi Srinivas Award
Gollapudi Srinivas Award
Gollapudi Srinivas Award is given to a first-time director in Indian Cinema every year. This Award is given out in the memory of Gollapudi Srinivas . He is the youngest son of Veteran Telugu film personality Gollapudi Maruthi Rao...
for best first-time director.
She has also written the book Amu based on the screenplay which released simultaneously with the film, making her the first Indian to do so.
Her upcoming movie is Chittagong Strike One, directed by her husband Bedabrato Pain which is about the Chittagong armoury raid
Chittagong armoury raid
The Chittagong armoury raid was an attempt on April 18, 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury in Bengal province of British India, by armed revolutionaries led by Surya Sen....
of 1930. The film stars Manoj Bajpai
Manoj Bajpai
Manoj Bajpai , also credited as Manoj Bajpayee, is an Indian film actor, known for playing offbeat and unconventional roles. He first shot into fame with his breakthrough role in Ram Gopal Varma's 1998 film Satya.-Early life:...
as Masterda Surya Sen
Surya Sen
Surya Sen was a prominent Bengali freedom fighter, an Indian independence activist and the chief architect of anti-British freedom movement in Chittagong, Bengal...
.
Filmography
- AmuAmu (film)Amu is a critically acclaimed 2005 film directed by Shonali Bose, based on her own novel by the same name. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Brinda Karat, and Ankur Khanna...
- 2005 - Chittagong - 2011 (co-producer)