Anuraadha Tewari | |
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Born |
Banaras, Uttar Pradesh, India |
11 August 1971
Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1996 – present |
Anuraadha Tewari also known as Anuradha Tiwari (born 11 August 1971) is a Mumbai-based Indian writer and film director, working for the last 18 years in the Hindi film industry and most known for co-writing screenplay of films like, Fashion (2008), Jail (2010), and Heroine (2012). Fashion won her a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Screenplay as well nominations in the Screen and IIFA awards that year. The Film went on to win 2 National Awards for its leading ladies i.e. Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut.
ISC, Welham Girls' School, Topper, ISC Commerce B Com (Hons) Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi President, Students Union MA Mass Communication MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Topper, the Class of '95.
With a master's degree and a Gold Medal in Film Direction from the prestigious Film School of Jamia, Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Anuraadha began her career as a Chief Assistant to Mahesh Bhatt and worked with him on 3 Films followed by a long stint as an independent Writer Director for Anupam Kher's Media based Company and was acknowledged as the youngest Director in India at the time by the mainstream Press for having directed some path breaking shows and events for TV. Thereafter, she has worked as the Supervising Producer of Channel V, the CEO of a Cinema-based portal by the Walchand group, the Creative Business Strategist for Astral Star Asia as well Vogue Entertainment, ending her corporate stint with the role of the National Creative Director, Crest Communications. Getting back to pure creatives in 2002,she worked As a Story – Screenplay Writer on Prakash Jha's 'Rahul', 'Yaadein' by Subhash Ghai and 'Supari' by Padam Kumar. Starting in 2004, she has written 12 successful Television Shows ending with 'Seven' a 26 part super hero series for Yashraj Films currently being aired on Sony, followed by the story and screenplay of the award-winning 'Fashion' (2008) 'Jail' and Heroine (2012) all 3 directed by Madhur Bhandarkar. She is currently a Story Consultant for a popular Production House, a Producer of some upcoming TV Shows and working on her Debut Film as a Writer-Director for a prestigious Banner of Bollywood.