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Sabrina Dhawan is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Script Supervisor born on 1969
Sabrina Dhawan is an England-born Indian screenwriter. She was born in England and was raised in New Delhi, India.
Dhawan is most well known for Monsoon Wedding, a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair; and for Cosmopolitan, a 2003 American cross-cultural romance film directed by Nisha Ganatra and broadcast on PBS. She also wrote the segment "India" (directed by Mira Nair) in 11'09"01 September 11, a series of short films for Canal Plus.
Dhawan's short film Saanjh was awarded the Best of the Festival at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. It also received the Audience Award at Angelus Awards; and was voted "Most Original Film," by New Line Cinema at the Polo Ralph Lauren New Works Festival in 2000.
Dhawan has a brief cameo in Monsoon Wedding as a wedding guest.
She currently lives in New York with her husband, Steve Cohen, who wrote Chris O'Donnell's The Bachelor, and their son, Kabir. She is also a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, in the Department of Dramatic Writing.
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Sabrina Dhawan
Birth name Sabrina Dhawan
Birth 1969 (56 years)
Birth 1969 (56 years)
Dhawan is most well known for Monsoon Wedding, a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair; and for Cosmopolitan, a 2003 American cross-cultural romance film directed by Nisha Ganatra and broadcast on PBS. She also wrote the segment "India" (directed by Mira Nair) in 11'09"01 September 11, a series of short films for Canal Plus.
Dhawan's short film Saanjh was awarded the Best of the Festival at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. It also received the Audience Award at Angelus Awards; and was voted "Most Original Film," by New Line Cinema at the Polo Ralph Lauren New Works Festival in 2000.
Dhawan has a brief cameo in Monsoon Wedding as a wedding guest.
She currently lives in New York with her husband, Steve Cohen, who wrote Chris O'Donnell's The Bachelor, and their son, Kabir. She is also a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, in the Department of Dramatic Writing.
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Filmography of Sabrina Dhawan (8 films)
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Monsoon Wedding (2001)
, 1h54Directed by Mira Nair
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about marriage
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Vasundhara Das, Vijay Raaz, Tillomata Shome
Roles Tuppa Girl #4
Rating72%
The film's central story concerns a father, Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), who is trying to organize an enormous, chaotic, and expensive wedding for his daughter, Aditi (Vasundhara Das), for whom he has arranged a marriage with a man, Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas), she has known for only a few weeks. As so often happens in the Punjabi culture, such a wedding means that, for one of the few times in each generation, the extended family comes together from all corners of the globe, including India, Australia, Oman, and the United States, bringing its emotional baggage along.
Scriptwriter
Rangoon (2017)
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Kangana Ranaut, Esha Gupta, Richard McCabe, Alex Avery
Rating56%
Rangoon is a Casablanca-like love triangle set against the backdrop of the Second World War and music company name will be Sony Music India.
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (2013)
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Pankaj Kapur, Imran Khan, Anushka Sharma, Aarya Babbar, Shabana Azmi, Ranvir Shorey
Rating56%
The film tells the story of three individuals, Harphool Singh Mandola a.k.a. Harry (Pankaj Kapur), his daughter, Bijlee Mandola (Anushka Sharma) and Hukum Singh Matru (Imran Khan) known in short as 'Matru'. Harry is a wealthy, cynical businessman who dreams of turning the Mandola village (named after his family) into a shining example of his success and a microcosm of a fledgeling economy in itself. But this dream can only be realised if the villagers agree to sell their land to the government at unfairly low rates in order for the land to be converted into a Special Economic Zone.
, 1h21Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Origin Inde
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Rating58%
Ishqiya (2010)
, 1h55Directed by Abhishek Chaubey
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi, Salman Shahid, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Sharma
Rating72%
Ishqiya starts with Krishna Verma (Vidya Balan) trying to convince her husband, Vidyadhar Verma (Adil Hussain), a local gang-lord, that he should surrender. He agrees but is soon killed in a gas explosion. Two criminals Iftikhar aka Khalujan (Naseeruddin Shah) and Razzak Hussain aka Babban (Arshad Warsi) botch up a job and escape from the clutches of their boss Mushtaq (Salman Shahid), who wants to bury them alive. They land up in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh to seek refuge in the house of Vidyadhar Verma.
Kaminey (2009)
, 2h15Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Amole Gupte, Deb Mukherjee, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Rajatava Dutta
Rating73%
Charlie and Guddu are twins who were raised in Mumbai. Charlie lisps while Guddu stutters. Charlie likes to take shortcuts to fulfil his dream of becoming a bookmaker at the racecourse where he works for three criminal brothers who fix races. He is closer to the youngest brother Mikhail than to Guddu, to whom he is hostile. A jockey deceives Charlie when he bets ₹100 000 (US$1 500) on a horse during a fixed race, losing all of his savings. Seeking revenge, Charlie locates the jockey in an upmarket city hotel.
Cosmopolitan (2003)
, 55minutesDirected by Nisha Ganatra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Roshan Seth, Carol Kane, Madhur Jaffrey, Purva Bedi, Kal Penn, Stephen Barker Turner
Rating73%
In an American suburb in Northern New Jersey, conservative, middle-aged Indian immigrant Gopal, a telephone-company engineer who has taken early retirement, is celebrating Diwali in November with his wife and grown daughter. His daughter suddenly tells him that she is leaving indefinitely to teach English in Mongolia with her German boyfriend. As Gopal recovers from this shock and tries to talk her out of it, largely on the grounds that she will be living in sin in his eyes, his wife Madhu announces that she is leaving him as well, and is taking up the spiritual life in an ashram in India.
11’09”01—September 11 (2002)
, 2h15Directed by Sean Penn, Claude Lelouch, Amos Gitaï, Youssef Chahine, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Danis Tanović, Ken Loach, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Shōhei Imamura, Mira Nair, Samira Makhmalbaf
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Medical-themed films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about disabilities, Dans un avion, Disaster films, Sign-language films, French Sign Language films, Films about language and translation, Films about hijackings
Actors Ernest Borgnine, Emmanuelle Laborit, Akira Emoto, Mitsuko Baishō, Ken Ogata, Keren Mor
Roles Writer
Rating67%
Dans un village au Moyen-Orient, la population se prépare à des représailles américaines en préparant des abris de terre cuite. Personne n'appréhende vraiment ce qui s'est passé à New York, mais ils savent que, même s'ils n'ont rien à voir avec cela, ils vont en subir les conséquences. Le film dénonce la manière dont des villages innocents dont la réalité n'a rien à voir avec les attentats du 11 septembre subissent finalement le même sort que les tours, sans vraiment comprendre.
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
, 1h54Directed by Mira Nair
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about marriage
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Vasundhara Das, Vijay Raaz, Tillomata Shome
Rating72%
The film's central story concerns a father, Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), who is trying to organize an enormous, chaotic, and expensive wedding for his daughter, Aditi (Vasundhara Das), for whom he has arranged a marriage with a man, Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas), she has known for only a few weeks. As so often happens in the Punjabi culture, such a wedding means that, for one of the few times in each generation, the extended family comes together from all corners of the globe, including India, Australia, Oman, and the United States, bringing its emotional baggage along.
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (2013)
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Pankaj Kapur, Imran Khan, Anushka Sharma, Aarya Babbar, Shabana Azmi, Ranvir Shorey
Roles Script Supervisor
Rating56%
The film tells the story of three individuals, Harphool Singh Mandola a.k.a. Harry (Pankaj Kapur), his daughter, Bijlee Mandola (Anushka Sharma) and Hukum Singh Matru (Imran Khan) known in short as 'Matru'. Harry is a wealthy, cynical businessman who dreams of turning the Mandola village (named after his family) into a shining example of his success and a microcosm of a fledgeling economy in itself. But this dream can only be realised if the villagers agree to sell their land to the government at unfairly low rates in order for the land to be converted into a Special Economic Zone.