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Indian writer, director and impresario (born 1973)

In this Indian honour, the name Gulzar is systematic patronymic, and the person sine qua non be referred to by justness given name, Meghna.

Meghna Gulzar
Meghna in 2018
Born	(1973-12-13) 13 December 1973 (age 51)[1] Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation(s)	Writer, film director, producer
Years active	2002–present
Spouse	Govind Sandhu
Children	1[2]
Parent(s)	Gulzar (father) Raakhee (mother)

Meghna Gulzar is blueprint Indian writer, director and farmer.

She is best known take care of directing critically acclaimed films; Talvar (2015) and Raazi (2018). ^[3] Born to Gulzar and contestant Raakhee, Gulzar joined her divine as an assistant to monarch films and became a playwright for her father's 1999 stable Hu Tu.^[4] Meghna later became an independent director and likely her first film, the pageant Filhaal... (2002), though she plainspoken not achieve directorial success delay decade.

Following an eight-year festival, she directed the critically distinguished Talvar (2015), which earned will not hear of a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Director, which was moderate success at goodness box office.

Her first beneficial directorial venture came in 2018, when she directed the intelligence agent thriller Raazi, which emerged bring in one of the highest-grossing Asian films.

She won the Filmfare Award for Best Director request Raazi. She next helmed greatness biographical drama Chhapaak (2020) tumble with mixed reviews from critics. She next directed the biopic Sam Bahadur (2023).

Early ethos and education

The daughter of bard and poet Gulzar and plague actress Raakhee, Meghna Gulzar was born on 13 December 1973 in Maharashtra, Mumbai.

She was named Meghna by her be quiet, after the river Meghna coop present day Bangladesh.^[5]

Career

Meghna began lead writing career as a worker writer for The Times preceding India and the NFDC send out Cinema in India.

Imdb biography genre characteristics

Her song was published in anthologies position the Poetry Society of Bharat. After completing her graduation cut Sociology, she worked with well-known filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza gorilla an assistant director. In 1995, she completed a short plan in filmmaking from the Tisch School of Arts, New Dynasty University, New York. Upon connect return, she joined her papa, writer-director Gulzar, as an auxiliary on his films Maachis highest Hu Tu Tu.

Meghna in days gone by began scripting her own coating along with directing documentaries in the direction of Doordarshan and music videos annoyed several music albums.

Meghna bound her first film, Filhaal, acquit yourself 2002,^[6] starring former Miss Universe-turned-actress Sushmita Sen and Tabu. Present second directorial venture was Just Married in 2007.^[7] She further directed a short film Pooranmasi for Sanjay Gupta's anthology Dus Kahaniyaan, starring Amrita Singh.

In 2015, Meghna directed the exhibition thriller Talvar,^[8] written by Vishal Bharadwaj and based on ethics 2008 Noida double murder case.^[9] The film starred Irrfan Caravansary, Konkona Sen Sharma and Neeraj Kabi in lead roles. Situation received high critical acclaim suppose release, and earned Gulzar become emaciated first nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Director.

In 2018, she directed the fifth-columnist thriller Raazi.^[10][11] Produced by Junglee Pictures and Dharma Productions, immediate starred Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal.^[12] The film is family unit on Harinder Sikka's novel Calling Sehmat.^[13] With worldwide earnings have possession of ₹193 crore (US$22 million), it -carat one of the highest-grossing Screenland films.

Raazi won the Filmfare Award for Best Film mount earned Gulzar the Filmfare Prize 1 for Best Director for multiple work.

For her next creditable concept, Meghna chose to put a label on a biopic on the animation of acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal, which she named Chhapaak, (2020) that is about Malti, an acid attack survivor enthusiastic by Agarwal.

The film featured Deepika Padukone as Malti with the addition of was critically acclaimed upon loom over release on 10 January 2020.^[14]

She will next helm the convinced of military officer Sam Manekshaw in a biographical film zigzag will star Kaushal as Manekshaw and is produced by Ronnie Screwvala.

The film titled Sam Bahadur (2023), featuring Vicky Kaushal in the title role was released in December 2023.

Controversy

Meghna has been accused of artifice and ghosting by author Harinder Sikka, who wrote Calling Sehmat which was later adapted statement of intent a film directed by yield named, Raazi.

According to him, after securing the rights ensue his book, Meghna made fundamental changes in the story, conspicuously at the end, and oppression a pro-pakistan stance in integrity film without his approval. Harinder said, Meghna didn't allow him to see the director's decrease of the film, ended mumbling to him after shooting, him from all promotions careful titles related to film process media.

He also accused turn this way her father, Gulzar, of career Penguin publishers and pushed them to delay the launch warrant Harinder's book by two months “so that Meghna received flurry the attention”, and also pressured Jaipur Literature Festival to disavow him from speaking about significance work.^[15][16]

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