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Arundhati Roy is a Actor, Scriptwriter, Production Designer and Production Design Indian born on 24 november 1961 at Shillong (Inde)

Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy
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Nationality Inde
Birth 24 november 1961 (62 years) at Shillong (Inde)
Awards Norman Mailer Prize

Arundhati Roy (née le 24 novembre 1961 à Shillong en Inde) est une écrivaine et militante indienne. Elle est notamment connue pour le roman Le Dieu des Petits Riens, pour lequel elle a obtenu le prix Booker en 1997, et pour son engagement en faveur de l'écologie, des droits humains et de l'altermondialisme.

Biography

Arundhati Roy est née à Shillong, dans l'État du Meghalaya (Inde). Son père est Rajib Roy, bengali hindou originaire de Kolkata et gestionnaire d'une plantation de thé, et sa mère Mary Roy, chrétienne syriaque malayalie et militante des droits des femmes originaire du Kerala. Ses parents divorcent quand elle a deux ans et elle retourne vivre avec sa mère et son frère au Kerala. Pendant un temps, la famille vit avec le grand-père maternel de Roy à Ooty au Tamil Nadu. Lorsqu'elle a cinq ans, la famille retourne au Kerala où sa mère crée une école.

Arundhati Roy va à l'école Corpus Christi de Kottayam puis la Lawrence School de Lovedale au Tamil Nadu. Elle étudie ensuite l'architecture à l'École d'aménagement et d'architecture ( School of Planning and Architecture) de Delhi où elle rencontre l'architecte Gerard da Cunha. Roy et da Cunha vivent ensemble à Delhi puis Goa avant de se séparer. Roy retourne alors à Delhi où elle obtient un poste à l'Institut national des Affaires urbaines (National Institute of Urban Affairs). En 1984, elle écrit le scénario du film Massey Sahib en collaboration avec le réalisateur Pradip Krishen qui deviendra son mari. Ils collaborent ensuite sur une série télévisée qui porte sur le mouvement pour l'indépendance de l'Inde et sur deux films, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones et Electric Moon. Déçue par le monde du cinéma, Roy enchaîne plusieurs emplois et se sépare de Krishen.

Son roman, Le Dieu des Petits Riens, publiée en 1997, lui permet de poursuivre sa carrière dans l'écriture.

Elle vit aujourd'hui à Delhi.

Usually with

Roshan Seth
Roshan Seth
(2 films)
Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Arundhati Roy (5 films)

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Actress

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, 1h49
Directed by Mira Nair
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Erotic, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Rekha, Indira Varma, Naveen Andrews, Ramon Tikaram, Sarita Choudhury, Arundhati Nag
Rating59% 2.9979152.9979152.9979152.9979152.997915
Set in 16th century India, this movie depicts the story of two girls who were raised together, though they came from different social classes. Tara (Sarita Choudhury) is an upper-caste princess while Maya (Indira Varma) is her beautiful servant. The two girls are best friends, but an undercurrent of jealousy and resentment is caused by Tara's haughtiness, symbolized by the fact that Maya is given Tara's hand-me-down clothes and never anything new to wear. As the girls approach marriageable age, Tara resents that Maya is a better classical dancer than she is, and that her parents and hunchback brother, Prince Bikram (aka "Viki") show affection for her servant.
In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, 1h52
Directed by Pradip Krishen
Genres Comedy
Actors Roshan Seth, Shahrukh Khan, Arundhati Roy, Himani Shivpuri, Manoj Bajpayee, Niraj Sah
Roles Radha
Rating80% 4.04134.04134.04134.04134.0413
Anand Grover, better known as Annie, is victimized for making fun of his principal, Y.D. Billimoria (popularly known as Yamdoot or Hell's messenger), years ago. At the National Institute of Architecture, New Delhi, Annie is repeating his fifth year for the fourth time. He spends his hours in the hostel which is the best part of his life, by 'giving it those ones' — indulging in daydreams of social uplift. His latest idea is to plant fruit trees on either side of railway tracks, where rural India defecates daily. The fecal matter will provide the necessary compost for the trees, while the trains, with sprinklers attached, will automatically water the plants.
Massey Sahib, 2h4
Directed by Pradip Krishen
Genres Drama
Actors Raghubir Yadav, Barry John, Virendra Saxena, Arundhati Roy, Hemant Mishra
Roles Saila (tribal girl)
Rating75% 3.7562153.7562153.7562153.7562153.756215
The film is set in 1929, in a small town in Central India. Francis Massey (Raghubir Yadav) is a clerk in the Deputy Commissioner's office in the colonial administration of British India. He aspires to be like the colonial rulers, and thinks of himself as different from his Indian compatriots. In his wish to help the rulers – in particular, his immediate superior, Deputy Commissioner Charles Adam (Barry John) – he adopts methods that are irregular. Adam's dream project of building a road through the forest is stuck for lack of funds. Massey manages to get it completed using a mixture of manipulation, persuasion and threats. To his surprise, he is accused of corruption by the very boss whom he had meant to help, and who had condoned his earlier transgressions. His wife too is forcefully taken back by her family. He turns for help to his friend Banaji (Veerendra Saxena) to get his wife back.Banaji refuses to help him. In an act of frustrated rage, Massey kills Banaji. He is arrested for murder, and Adam advises him to plead guilty to accidental manslaughter. However, Massey refuses, secure in the belief that his Adam Sahib will help him out, leading to the tragic denouement.

Scriptwriter

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, 1h52
Directed by Pradip Krishen
Genres Comedy
Actors Roshan Seth, Shahrukh Khan, Arundhati Roy, Himani Shivpuri, Manoj Bajpayee, Niraj Sah
Roles Writer
Rating80% 4.04134.04134.04134.04134.0413
Anand Grover, better known as Annie, is victimized for making fun of his principal, Y.D. Billimoria (popularly known as Yamdoot or Hell's messenger), years ago. At the National Institute of Architecture, New Delhi, Annie is repeating his fifth year for the fourth time. He spends his hours in the hostel which is the best part of his life, by 'giving it those ones' — indulging in daydreams of social uplift. His latest idea is to plant fruit trees on either side of railway tracks, where rural India defecates daily. The fecal matter will provide the necessary compost for the trees, while the trains, with sprinklers attached, will automatically water the plants.

Production

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, 1h52
Directed by Pradip Krishen
Genres Comedy
Actors Roshan Seth, Shahrukh Khan, Arundhati Roy, Himani Shivpuri, Manoj Bajpayee, Niraj Sah
Roles Production Designer
Rating80% 4.04134.04134.04134.04134.0413
Anand Grover, better known as Annie, is victimized for making fun of his principal, Y.D. Billimoria (popularly known as Yamdoot or Hell's messenger), years ago. At the National Institute of Architecture, New Delhi, Annie is repeating his fifth year for the fourth time. He spends his hours in the hostel which is the best part of his life, by 'giving it those ones' — indulging in daydreams of social uplift. His latest idea is to plant fruit trees on either side of railway tracks, where rural India defecates daily. The fecal matter will provide the necessary compost for the trees, while the trains, with sprinklers attached, will automatically water the plants.

Art