Residence Mumbai Name Guneet Monga | Role Film producer | |
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Nominations Star Guild Award for Best Film Movies The Lunchbox, Masaan, Gangs of Wasseypur, Peddlers, Monsoon Shootout Similar People Anurag Kashyap, Ritesh Batra, Neeraj Ghaywan, Sunil Bohra, Vicky Kaushal | ||
Guneet monga with komal nahta
Guneet Monga (born 1983) is an Indian film producer, BAFTA nominee and line producer and the co-founder of Sikhya Entertainment, a film production company, and also CEO at Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd. (AKFPL), which she joined in 2009, producing notable films like Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012), Peddlers (2012) and The Lunchbox (Dabba) (2013).
Contents
- Guneet monga with komal nahta
- Video played at iffla honoring guneet monga with the industry leadership awards
- Early life and education
- Career
- Filmography
- References
Video played at iffla honoring guneet monga with the industry leadership awards
Early life and education
Monga grew up in Delhi.She received her primary education at Bluebells School International, and received a degree in mass communications from Madhubala Institute of mass communication and electronic Media affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi in 2004.
Career
In 2003, Monga intern with a production coordinator in 2003 in Delhi, and after receiving her mass communications she started career as production coordinator for international productions, most notably Vic Sarin's Partition. She shifted to Mumbai in 2006, when she started working in cricket film, Say Salaam India (2007). This was followed by Rang Rasiya (2008) and Dasvidaniya (2008) and later in 2009, during the making of Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010), produced by Balaji Telefilms, she met director-producer, Anurag Kashyap, and subsequently in late 2009 she joined Anurag Kashyap Films.
Monga's first major international film was the 2010 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film-nominated short, Kavi (2009), about bonded labour in India, directed by Gregg Helvey, and which won the Student Academy Award - Narrative in 2009. Meanwhile, in 2008 she started her own production company, Sikhya Entertainment and also a line production company. With Anurag Kashyap, she went on to work on film like Gangs of Wasseypur, Part I & II (2012) and That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011), besides, Trishna (2011), Shaitan (2011), Michael (2011), and Aiyya. She also raised nearly ₹10 million (US$160,000) for Peddlers (2012) made of a budget of Rs 2 cr., by posting the film's script on Facebook.
She co-produced Monsoon Shootout jointly with Yaffle Films, UK. Monga was involved in the production of The Lunchbox, a project shown at Film Bazaar (2011),; Cinemart (2012), Berlinale Co-Production Market (2012) and TorinoFilmLab (2012).
In May 2013, when two of her feature films, The Lunchbox (Dabba) and Monsoon Shootout were selected for the International Critics' Week and a midnight screening at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, respectively, The Hollywood Reporter called her "most prolific producers of a new wave of cinema" while Hollywood Reporter's "2012 Women in Entertainment special", placed her amongst "12 international players to watch"; India Today has credited her for giving a facelift to independent cinema, and bridging "the gap between Indian films and foreign buyers and distributors."
Filmography
Haraamkhor (2017)