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Sai Paranjpye (born 19 March 1938) is an Indian movie director and screenwriter. She is the director of the award-winning movies Sparsh, Katha, Chasme Buddoor and Disha. She has written and directed many Marathi plays such as Jaswandi, Sakkhe Shejari, and Albel.
Sai Paranjpye. Director: The Touch. Sai Paranjpye has succeeded as a woman filmmaker of contemporary India in making work that has received both critical recognition and popular commercial appeal.She is of mixed ancestry with a Russian father and a mother from Maharashtra who had studied math in Cambridge,England.After her parents divorced,she ...
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- Director, Writer, Music Department
- Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
- Sai Paranjape
Sai Paranjpye was the only woman creating art cinema in India in its heyday in the 1970s and ’80s. A feminist who rejects being pigeon-holed as a “woman filmmaker”, she stood out for her lack of...
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Sai Paranjpye: ‘I have enjoyed many advantages because I am a woman’ - Hindustan Times. By Mihir Chitre. Sep 02, 2022 04:38 PM IST. The veteran film maker talks about her childhood, the...
Nov 28, 2020 · 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...
Mar 18, 2021 · A prolific writer and filmmaker, who, over the many decades of her life, has managed to merge the distinct lines between mainstream and parallel cinema, Sai Paranjpye stands tall amongst the many legendary figures of Indian Cinema.
Mar 19, 2023 · Chashme Buddoor (1981) was Sai Paranjpye’s achingly sweet rom-com that harks back to the era of innocence when college students chased girls all across town hoping to get them to agree to a coffee or a movie. Sex, if at all, was never discussed. The gently clever plot of Sai’s film could be divided into three movements.
