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Bhavani Iyer started her career with advertising as a trainee copywriter. She then moved to journalism and had worked as the editor for the film magazine Stardust. She made her screenwriting debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali 's Black. She has collaborated on the screenplays for Bhansali's Guzaarish, Vikramaditya Motwane's Lootera and the Indian ...
Nov 28, 2020 · Bhavani Iyer celebrates her 40th birthday today. Bhavani Iyer calls herself a maximalist. “The more I write, the better,” she says. In fact, the screenwriter currently has 47 scripts in different stages of development. Yet, her career of 15 years in Hindi cinema has seen only 10 works on screen, some of them adaptations.
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Raised in an academics-oriented South Indian family in Bengaluru, Bhavani has no connection with films and remembers a childhood where she would hardly watch one film in a year. When she was in college in Mumbai, pursuing an undergraduate degree in science, Bhavani worked as a trainee copywriter with an advertising agency. “That was the beginning o...
Seeing her wide repertoire of work, Raazi director Meghna Gulzar met Bhavani and asked her to write for the film. “Just the day before I had watched Talvar(which I had missed watching in the theatre). I loved the film so much, I could see the magic she had woven and I think I almost willed her telepathically to think of me and call me! She told me ...
Bhavani does not work on more than one film at a time. And she never carries the baggage of one project to another. “I never carry the baggage of one project to another. I find it very easy to completely erase any emotion or memory from my mind once I’ve moved from one writing to another. It’s like the movie The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Min...
Bhavani Iyer. Writer: Raazi. Bhavani Iyer is known for Raazi (2018), Black (2005) and 24: India (2013). Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular ...
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Dec 4, 2023 · Bhavani Iyer, who co-wrote Sam Bahadur’s script with Shantanu Srivastava and director Meghna Gulzar, shares that it feels surreal to see the film finally on the big screen.
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Learn how Bhavani Iyer, a Bangalore-born screenwriter, became a successful and influential voice in Bollywood cinema. Read about her influences, her scripts, and her experience with directors like Anurag Kashyap and Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
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A former journalist, Bhavani Iyer is an Indian film writer, made her screenwriting debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black, followed by Guzaarish. She has written the screenplay of films like Black, Guzaarish, Lootera, One Night Stand, Raazi and Indian TV Series like 24, Everest, Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai. Peers & More. Himanshu Sharma.
