Spouse Bedabrato Pain Years active 1997—present Books Amu | Name Shonali Bose Children Ishan Pain, Vivan Pain Role Film director | |
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Occupation Film DirectorFilm ProducerScreenwriter Movies Margarita - with a Str, Amu, Chittagong Similar People Sayani Gupta, Kalki Koechlin, Bedabrato Pain, Hussain Dalal, Revathi | ||
Shonali bose
Shonali Bose (Bengali: সোনালী বোস) (born 3 June 1965) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. She is known for the biographical social drama Amu (2005), which was based on her own novel of the same name. Amu, which explores the suppressed history of the genocidal attacks on Sikhs in Delhi in 1984, was critically acclaimed upon release and earned her the National Film Award in the Best Feature Film in English category. Her next film, the 2015 drama Margarita with a Straw, was a major critical and commercial success as well.
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- Shonali bose
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- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- Awards
- References
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Early life
Shonali hails from Calcutta, and grew up in Bombay and Delhi. She has been an activist since her student days at Miranda House College. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Delhi University and master's degree in Political Science from Columbia University, New York. She was also involved in theater as an actor throughout school and college. Activist Malini Chib is her first cousin, on whom she made the drama film Margarita with a Straw (2014).
Career
Shonali had worked for a year as an organizer at the National Lawyers Guild, 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 seven 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.
In 2012, she co-wrote Chittagong, directed by her former husband Bedabrata Pain which is about the Chittagong armoury raid of 1930. The film stars Manoj Bajpai as Masterda Surya Sen. Her 2014 film, Margarita, with a Straw starring Kalki Koechlin, as a girl with cerebral palsy was premiered at 2014 Toronto Film Festival where it won the NETPAC Jury Award for Best Asian Film. Earlier, Bose was the first Indian to win the Sundance-Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award for the script, awarded at the 2012 Sundance Film festival.
Personal life
She was married to Bedabrata Pain but is now separated. Bose identifies as bisexual.