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Sooni Taraporevala is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Still Photographer Indian born on 1957 at Mumbai (Inde)
Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is an Indian screenwriter and photographer who is best known as the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay (1988), all directed by Mira Nair.
She directed her first feature film, based on a screenplay of her own, an ensemble piece set in Bombay, in Spring, 2007, entitled "Little Zizou.".
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Sooni Taraporevala
Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is an Indian screenwriter and photographer who is best known as the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay (1988), all directed by Mira Nair.
She directed her first feature film, based on a screenplay of her own, an ensemble piece set in Bombay, in Spring, 2007, entitled "Little Zizou.".
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Filmography of Sooni Taraporevala (6 films)
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Little Zizou (2008)
Directed by Sooni Taraporevala
Genres Drama
Actors John Abraham, Boman Irani, Imaad Shah, Kurush Deboo, Shernaz Patel, Cyrus Broacha
Rating65%
Xerxes, 'Little Zizou' as he is known, is an eleven-year-old soccer-crazy Parsi boy whose fervent wish is that his idol, Zinedine Zidane, visit Mumbai. His older brother Artaxerxes, or Art, is a talented artist whose wild fantasies come to life in surprising ways. Their father Khodaiji is a self-proclaimed protector-of-the-faith who thrives on the attentions (and donations) of hopeful believers.
Scriptwriter
Little Zizou (2008)
Directed by Sooni Taraporevala
Genres Drama
Actors John Abraham, Boman Irani, Imaad Shah, Kurush Deboo, Shernaz Patel, Cyrus Broacha
Roles Writer
Rating65%
Xerxes, 'Little Zizou' as he is known, is an eleven-year-old soccer-crazy Parsi boy whose fervent wish is that his idol, Zinedine Zidane, visit Mumbai. His older brother Artaxerxes, or Art, is a talented artist whose wild fantasies come to life in surprising ways. Their father Khodaiji is a self-proclaimed protector-of-the-faith who thrives on the attentions (and donations) of hopeful believers.
The Namesake (2006)
, 3h44Directed by Mira Nair
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Kal Penn, Zuleikha Robinson, Jacinda Barrett, Sebastian Roché
Rating74%
The Namesake depicts the struggles of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli (Irrfan Khan and Tabu), two first-generation immigrants from West Bengal, India to the United States, and their American-born children Gogol (Kal Penn) and Sonia (Sahira Nair). The film takes place primarily in Kolkata, India; New York City; and various New York state suburbs.
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000)
Directed by Jabbar Patel
Genres Biography, Historical
Actors Mammootty, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Gokhale, Govind Namdev, Mrinal Dev-Kulkarni, Aanjjan Srivastav
Roles Writer
Rating88%
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, his film biopic on the National leader who fought also for dalits, which has been in the making for the past nine years, is now seeing the light of the day. The film which fetched Malayalam superstar Mammooty a National award in 1999, however took a while to reach the audience. After the English version received the award, Patel said "the decision was taken to go in for different dubbing versions. It was decided to dub the film in eight languages. So it needed time to write the script, go for script approval from prominent Sahitya Akademi winners,". That entailed going for dubbing teams and a series of voice trials. Mammooty is doing the Malayalam and Tamil dubbing but not the Hindi.
Such a Long Journey (1998)
, 1h53Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Kurush Deboo, Vrajesh Hirjee
Rating71%
Gustad Noble (Roshan Seth) is a Parsi bank clerk who lives with his family in Bombay (Mumbai) just before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. At first he seems to be a self-centred, self-involved, neurotic man who is so tied up in his own pain for perceived slights both past and present that he cannot seem to connect with either friends or family. He is haunted by memories of a privileged youth and his father's fortune, lost to the machinations of a scheming, unscrupulous uncle. He is baffled by the changes wrought in his eldest son, Sohrab (Vrajesh Hirjee), who is having a difficult coming of age. A childhood friend, Jimmy Bilimoria (Naseeruddin Shah), has become a swashbuckling, swaggering member of the military. At the beginning of the movie, Major Jimmy has abandoned a lifelong friendship with Gustad without warning or explanation, and Gustad is angry and resentful over the desertion. Soon the Major contacts Gustad, ostensibly to restore their friendship, but in actuality he uses their past acquaintance to impose on Gustad for help in a clandestine plan to put money into the hands of rebels in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) When Gustad has second thoughts and tries to back out of the plan, the family cat is killed in a gruesome way and left for Gustad to find with a threatening note attached.
Mississippi Masala (1991)
, 1h58Directed by Mira Nair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury, Sharmila Tagore, Charles Dutton, Joe Seneca
Roles Writer
Rating66%
The film begins in 1972 when Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda. This included Jay (Roshan Seth) his wife, Kinnu (Sharmila Tagore), and their daughter, Mina (Sarita Choudhury), a family of third-generation Ugandan Indians residing in Kampala. It then moves forward to 1990. After spending a few years in England, Jay, Kinnu, and Mina have relocated in 1987 to Greenwood, Mississippi to live with family members who own a chain of motels there.
Salaam Bombay! (1988)
, 1h53Directed by Mira Nair
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films, Bollywood, Erotic thriller films
Actors Anita Kanwar, Shafiq Syed, Nana Patekar, Raghubir Yadav, Irrfan Khan, Sanjana Kapoor
Roles Story
Rating78%
Before the start of the film, Krishna has set fire to his bullying elder brother's motor-bike. This has landed him in big trouble with his mother. She has taken him to the nearby Apollo Circus and told him that he can only come home when he earns 500 rupees to pay for the damaged bike. Krishna agrees and works for the circus.
Production
Little Zizou (2008)
Directed by Sooni Taraporevala
Genres Drama
Actors John Abraham, Boman Irani, Imaad Shah, Kurush Deboo, Shernaz Patel, Cyrus Broacha
Roles Producer
Rating65%
Xerxes, 'Little Zizou' as he is known, is an eleven-year-old soccer-crazy Parsi boy whose fervent wish is that his idol, Zinedine Zidane, visit Mumbai. His older brother Artaxerxes, or Art, is a talented artist whose wild fantasies come to life in surprising ways. Their father Khodaiji is a self-proclaimed protector-of-the-faith who thrives on the attentions (and donations) of hopeful believers.
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Salaam Bombay! (1988)
, 1h53Directed by Mira Nair
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films, Bollywood, Erotic thriller films
Actors Anita Kanwar, Shafiq Syed, Nana Patekar, Raghubir Yadav, Irrfan Khan, Sanjana Kapoor
Roles Still Photographer
Rating78%
Before the start of the film, Krishna has set fire to his bullying elder brother's motor-bike. This has landed him in big trouble with his mother. She has taken him to the nearby Apollo Circus and told him that he can only come home when he earns 500 rupees to pay for the damaged bike. Krishna agrees and works for the circus.