Shonali Bose (born 3 June 1965) is an Indian film director, writer and
film producer. Having made her feature film debut in 2005, she has
since won such accolades as a National Film Award, a Bridgestone
Narrative Award, and a Sundance Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award.Bose
earned her breakthrough with her first feature film, the 2005
biographical drama Amu, which was based on her own novel of the same
name. The film which chronicles the attacks on Sikhs in Delhi in 1984,
garnered critical acclaim and the National Film Award for Best Feature
Film in English. Bose then worked as the assistant director for the
2012 war film Chittagong, which she also co-wrote.Bose's status as a
filmmaker grew following the critical and commercial success of the
dramas Margarita with a Straw (2015) and The Sky Is Pink (2019).
Inspired from the life of Malini Chibâ€"her cousin and a disability
rights activist, the former earned Bose a Sundance Mahindra Global
Filmmaker Award and a NETPAC Award.
film producer. Having made her feature film debut in 2005, she has
since won such accolades as a National Film Award, a Bridgestone
Narrative Award, and a Sundance Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award.Bose
earned her breakthrough with her first feature film, the 2005
biographical drama Amu, which was based on her own novel of the same
name. The film which chronicles the attacks on Sikhs in Delhi in 1984,
garnered critical acclaim and the National Film Award for Best Feature
Film in English. Bose then worked as the assistant director for the
2012 war film Chittagong, which she also co-wrote.Bose's status as a
filmmaker grew following the critical and commercial success of the
dramas Margarita with a Straw (2015) and The Sky Is Pink (2019).
Inspired from the life of Malini Chibâ€"her cousin and a disability
rights activist, the former earned Bose a Sundance Mahindra Global
Filmmaker Award and a NETPAC Award.
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