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Sooni Taraporevala is best known as the screenwriter for the Oscar-nominated "Salaam Bombay!" and "Mississippi Masala," both directed by Mira Nair. But she is also a professional photographer.
Taraporevala, who resides in Bombay, India, is a graduate of Harvard University (where she met Nair as an undergraduate, leading to their longtime creative collaboration) and New York University.
She wrote the screenplays for the "Salaam Bombay!" and for "Mississippi Masala" starring Denzel Washington, both directed by Mira Nair. Her other produced credits include the film "Such a Long Journey," based on the novel by Rohinton Mistry, directed by Sturla Gunnarson; "My Own Country," based on the book by Abraham Verghese, directed by Mira Nair for Showtime television; and the film "Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar" directed by Dr. Jabbar Patel for the Government of India and the National Film Development Corporation of India.
Her photographs have been exhibited in India, the U.S., France and Britain, including Londons Tate Modern gallery.
In fall 2004, she released a coffee-table photography book, a 24-year labor of love, on India's Parsi Zoroastrian community, entitled PARSIS: THE ZOROASTRIANS OF INDIA - A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY (Overlook Press). Taraporevala herself is Parsi. She had previously self-published the book in India in 2000, where it sold out in just a few months. The book received glowing advance praise from film director Mira Nair, Harvard literature professor and noted postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha, acclaimed writers Rohinton Mistry and Bapsi Sidhwa, and conductor Zubin Mehta.
As of 2005, is currently adapting Tony Kushners play "Homebody/Kabul" for Mira Nair and HBO, as well as Hari Kunzrus novel THE IMPRESSIONIST for Mira Nair and Fox Searchlight, and Pulitzer-prize winning writer Jumpha Lahiris latest novel THE NAMESAKE.
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