About the author

Sooni Taraporevala born and brought up in Bombay, studied at Queen Mary School. A scholarship took her to Harvard University where she was an undergraduate for four years. Concentrating in English Literature, Film and Photography, she received a BA in 1980. She received an MA from New York University in Film Theory and Criticism, after which she returned to India and worked as a freelance still photographer. Her photographs have been exhibited in India, America, France and Britain. In 1986 she wrote her first screenplay Salaam Bombay! The film which was nominated for an Oscar, won more than 25 awards worldwide, and earned her the Lillian Gish Award from Women in Film, Los Angeles. Her second screenplay Mississippi Masala, won the Osella award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival. Her other produced credits include the films Such a Long Journey, (for which she received a Genie nomination from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television), My Own Country, and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. She is married to Dr Firdaus Bativala, they have two children, Jahan and Iyanah. This is her first book of photographs.

Sooni can be reached at sooni@parsijourney.com or here.