By Neha Kirpal
The recently released autobiography of year-old award-winning Hindi film director and screenwriter Sai Paranjpye, A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life (HarperCollins India, ₹), provides a charming glimpse into the Padma Bhushan awardee’s colourful and exciting life.
While Paranjpye is best known for the Bollywood cult classic Chashme Buddoor () besides landmark films such as Sparsh (), Katha (), Disha (), Papeeha (), and Saaz (), she seamlessly meandered through “the magical labyrinth of radio, television and film, like a carefree gypsy” in her multifarious journey.
During the heady days when theatre, television and films were at a nascent stage in India, all of these forays led her to create several works—books for youngsters, a children’s theatre movement, documentaries, telefilms, television serials and feature films.
Paranjpye’s genius possibly also came from her genes. Her grandfather, Dr RP Paranjpye, was a famous mathematician. Her mother, Shakuntala, was a writer, social worker and theatre artist who graduated from Cambridge and completed a stint at the International Labour Organisation, Geneva.
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Sai Paranjpye
Sai Paranjpye Biography
Sai Paranjpye is a well known film director and screenwriter of Indian cinema. She is the director of award-winning movies Sparsh, Katha, Chasme Buddoor and Disha. Her Marathi playwrights - Jaswandi, Sakkhe Shejari, Albel are immensely popular. In , she received Padma Bhushan for her contributions to Indian cinema. In , she received National Film Award for Best Screenplay for the movie – Sparsh. In , her movie, Chhodiyan received National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues. She has also received two Filmfare awards. In , she received Filmfare Best Director Award and best dialogue writer award for the movie, Sparsh. In , she received best director nomination at Filmfare for Chashme Baddoor.
Sai Paranjpye was born on 19 March in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh to Russian Youra Sleptzoff and Shakuntala Paranjpye, an actor in Marathi and Hindi films. Sai's parents divorced shortly after her birth and she was raised by her mother. She completed her schooling and degree and later graduated from the National School of Drama, New Delhi in She started her career in All India Radio in Pune as an announcer. Later she became involved in
Sai Paranjpye has succeeded as a woman filmmaker of contemporary India in making work that has received both critical recognition and popular commercial is of mixed ancestry with a Russian father and a mother from Maharashtra who had studied math in Cambridge, her parents divorced,she grew up with her grandfather,an Indian commissioner in Australia who was awarded published a book at the precocious age of eight and in her later college years won awards for her she became a filmmaker she wrote plays and programmes for children and studied for a year in France under the famed stage actor Jean Louis Barrault.A marriage to another theater artist, Arun Joglekar, failed but resulted in two children who became performers.
BornMarch 19,
Sai Paranjpye interview: ‘I guess I was born with a grin’
Sai Paranjpye is en route someplace – she always is. In between getting from one point to the next somewhere in Pune where she lives part of the year, Paranjpye offers a crisp and jocular account of her latest project: the English translation of her Marathi-language autobiography. Instructions to her driver mesh seamlessly with a phone interview about the art of self-memorialising, the importance of humour in her works and the question of mortality, now all the more important in our coronavirus-infected times.
Paranjpye, who is 82 but sounds a few decades younger, produced her first literary work when she was eight. It was a set of fairy tales for children in Marathi. The multi-lingual multihypenate has scripted and directed plays, films, documentaries, and television serials for children and grown-ups alike over her decades-long career. Sparsh, Chashme Buddoor and Katha are among the best-regarded films of the s. She has written and staged several plays, including Sakhe Shejari, Jaswandi and Maza Khel Mandu De, and directed the television serials Ados Pados and Chhote Bade in the s.
In , Paranjpye
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