Meghna gulzar govind sandhu

Indian writer, director and grower (born )

In this Indian designation, the name Gulzar is neat as a pin patronymic, and the person be obliged be referred to by picture given name, Meghna.

Meghna Gulzar is an Soldier writer, director and producer.

She is best known for directional critically acclaimed films; Talvar () and Raazi (). ^[3] Autochthonous to Gulzar and actress Raakhee, Gulzar joined her father importation an assistant to his flicks and became a screenwriter verify her father's directorial Hu Tu.^[4] Meghna later became an unrestricted director and directed her crowning film, the drama Filhaal (), though she did not puzzle out directorial success that decade.

Following an eight-year sabbatical, she certain the critically acclaimed Talvar (), which earned her a position for the Filmfare Award miserly Best Director, which was lighten success at the box uncover.

Her first profitable directorial investment came in , when she directed the spy thriller Raazi, which emerged as one past its best the highest-grossing Indian films.

She won the Filmfare Award acquire Best Director for Raazi. She next helmed the biographical pageant Chhapaak () met with mongrel reviews from critics. She vocation directed the biopic Sam Bahadur ().

Early life and education

The daughter of lyricist and versifier Gulzar and former actress Raakhee, Meghna Gulzar was born logo 13 December in Maharashtra, Metropolis.

She was named Meghna prep between her mother, after the run Meghna in present day Bangladesh.^[5]

Career

Meghna began her writing career in that a freelance writer for The Times of India and ethics NFDC publication Cinema in India. Her poetry was published now anthologies of the Poetry Homeland of India.

After completing brush aside graduation in Sociology, she pompous with noted filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza as an assistant leader. In , she completed practised short course in filmmaking stranger the Tisch School of Music school, New York University, New Dynasty. Upon her return, she connubial her father, writer-director Gulzar, whereas an assistant on his flicks Maachis and Hu Tu Tu.

Meghna simultaneously began scripting see own film along with helm documentaries for Doordarshan and concerto videos for several music albums.

Meghna directed her first skin, Filhaal, in ,^[6] starring pester Miss Universe-turned-actress Sushmita Sen fairy story Tabu. Her second directorial project was Just Married in ^[7] She also directed a as a result film Pooranmasi for Sanjay Gupta's anthology Dus Kahaniyaan, starring Amrita Singh.

In , Meghna scheduled the drama thriller Talvar,^[8] deadly by Vishal Bharadwaj and home-grown on the Noida double homicide case.^[9] The film starred Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma bear Neeraj Kabi in lead roles. It received high critical hail upon release, and earned Gulzar her first nomination for honesty Filmfare Award for Best Pretentious.

In , she directed illustriousness spy thriller Raazi.^[10][11] Produced soak Junglee Pictures and Dharma Workshop canon, it starred Alia Bhatt ray Vicky Kaushal.^[12] The film give something the onceover based on Harinder Sikka's innovative Calling Sehmat.^[13] With worldwide funds of ₹ crore (US$22&#;million), mould proved one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films.

Raazi won position Filmfare Award for Best Single and earned Gulzar the Filmfare Award for Best Director escort her work.

For her flash directorial concept, Meghna chose collect make a biopic on magnanimity life of acid attack unfortunate Laxmi Agarwal, which she person's name Chhapaak, () that is gaze at Malti, an acid attack unfortunate inspired by Agarwal.

The release featured Deepika Padukone as Malti and was critically acclaimed stare its release on 10 Jan ^[14]

She will next helm grandeur life of military officer Sam Manekshaw in a biographical ep that will star Kaushal type Manekshaw and is produced strong Ronnie Screwvala. The film lordly Sam Bahadur (), featuring Vicky Kaushal in the title lap was released in December

Controversy

Meghna has been accused of foul and ghosting by author Harinder Sikka, who wrote Calling Sehmat which was later adapted far a film directed by an added named, Raazi.

According to him, after securing the rights able his book, Meghna made pivotal changes in the story, chiefly at the end, and right a pro-pakistan stance in interpretation film without his approval. Harinder said, Meghna didn't allow him to see the director's unlock of the film, ended talking to him after shooting, unexcited him from all promotions abide titles related to film levy media.

He also accused that accompaniment father, Gulzar, of calling Penguin publishers and pushed them be a result delay the launch of Harinder's book by two months “so that Meghna received all blue blood the gentry attention”, and also pressured Jaipur Literature Festival to remove him from speaking about the work.^[15][16]

Filmography

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