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Sooni Taraporevala is an acclaimed photographer whose first book, Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India-- A Photographic Journey, documents Bombay’s small but vibrant Zoroastrian community. Taraporevala first came to the U.S. as an undergraduate student at Harvard University and later received an M.A. from New York University in Film Theory and ...
Oct 30, 2012 · When Sooni Taraporevala ’79-’80 arrived at Harvard for the first time, art was not high on her agenda. “I came here thinking I would study economics,” she said. “I don’t know why.”
Jun 28, 2016 · Indian writer and photographer Sooni Taraporevala, best known as the screenwriter of The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay, took a picture of her family in a Mumbai balcony 31 years ago.
Oct 11, 2017 · Sooni Taraporevala is a leading Indian photographer, screenwriter and filmmaker. She is best known for writing films such as Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay.
Dec 12, 2004 · You may know the work of Sooni Taraporevala from the big screen — she wrote the screenplays for Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, each of which won awards.
Jan 29, 2023 · An important thread that emerges in Taraporevala’s work is the figuration of diasporic Indian and the idea of displacement. As a Parsi and an Indian, her own vantage point is equipped to trace the axes of positioning identity within the western canon.
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After her BA, she enrolled in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University for her MA. In 1981, she returned to India to work as a freelance still photographer. In 1986 she wrote her first screenplay, Salaam Bombay!, for director/producer Mira Nair.
