Anupama Chopra

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Anupama Chopra (born 23 February 1967) is an Indian writer, journalist, film critic, and producer of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.

She is also the creator and editor of the digital platform Film Companion, which gives a curated glimpse at cinema.

She has written numerous books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV, India Today, and the Hindustan Times.

On Star World, she also hosted The Front Row With Anupama Chopra.

For her debut book Sholay: The Making of a Classic, she received the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema.

For Film Companion, she currently reviews films and interviews celebrities.

Early life and background

She was born in Calcutta, India, to Chandra Parshad's family, and she has also lived in Badayun, a district in Uttar Pradesh. Navin Chandra was the eldest of the brothers and sisters. The grandfather of Anupama, who hails from Delhi, was an executive with Union Carbide, Kolkata. Kamna Chandra was a scriptwriter who wrote dialogue for films including Prem Rog (1982) and Chandni (1989). Chopra grew up in Mumbai with her brother and sister, where her family lived in Nepean Sea Road and then in Cuffe Parade. Tanuja Chandra is a film producer and screenwriter in India; Vikram Chandra, a novelist, divides his time between California and India, is a novelist. She lived in Hong Kong for many years as a child. She graduated with a BA in English Literature from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, in 1987.

Chopra earned her M.A. in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism later in life. When she was at Medill, she received the Harrington Award for "academic excellence and promise for success in the field of magazine journalism." "Film journalism was untouchable at the time," she later said. Everybody was ashamed, and no one wanted to admit that I worked for movies."

Personal life

Chopra is married to Vidhu Vinod Chopra, a Hindi film producer and director. Zuni Chopra (born 2001/2002) is the author of three books, including a novel and two books in poetry. Agni Dev Chopra's son is an aspiring cricketer.

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Career

Chopra began her career as a film reporter and critic and has written several books on film, especially Hindi cinema. She has written about the Hindi film industry since 1993 and has investigated cinema in a variety of genres – print, television, and digital. Sholay, her first book, received the National Film Award in 2001 for Best Book on Cinema (India). The Bravehearted Will Take The Bride), by Dilwale Dulhanya Le Jayenge (2002), was released by the British Film Institute as part of their Modern Classics Collection. On the annual "Editor's Choice" list of the New York Times Book Review, her book "Kharma" Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema was featured. It was also translated into German, Indonesian, and Polish.

Chopra's 2011 book First Day First Show: Writings from the Bollywood Trenches is a collection of her articles on Hindi cinema that have been published by Penguin India.

Chopra's work has been published in India Today, India's biggest English-language newspaper. She has also written about Hindi films for various international publications, including The New York Times, Variety, and Sight & Sound, and she is now a contributing editor to Vogue India.

This is a preview by Chopra of this film review by CNN's 24X7 news channel. Anupama Chopra, a writer from Los Angeles, launched The Front Row, a weekly review show that ran until June 2014. In 2013, she published two books, Freeze Frame based on the interviews with film makers and actors on the TV show, and 100 Films to See Before You Die based on her weekly film columns. On Star Plus, she also appeared on 'Star Verdict' in Hindi. She currently hosts Film Companion on YouTube, which has been replaced by "The Front Row With Anupama Chopra," in which she criticizes Hindi Film films. She has written several books on cinema. Anupama's new book, The Front Row: Conversations on Cinema, which was released by HarperCollins, is a collection of her televised interviews with both Indian Film and Hollywood celebrities. She is also involved in activities in India related to film festivals.

Chopra replaced Shyam Benegal to become the chairperson of the Mumbai Film Festival, which was hosted by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI).

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Awards

• 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema for Sholay: The Making of a Classic