Renu Saluja
| Renu Saluja | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 5, 1952 Delhi |
| Died | August 16, 2000 (aged 48) Mumbai |
| Occupation | film editor |
| Years active | 1980-2000 |
| Spouse(s) | Vidhu Vinod Chopra (divorced) Sudhir Mishra (Widower) |
| Relatives | Radha Saluja (sister) |
Renu Saluja (Punjabi:ਰੇਣੁ ਸਲੂਜਾ, Hindi: रेणु सलुजा) (5 July 1952 – 16 August 2000) was an Indian film editor. In the 1980s and 1990s, she worked with both mainstream and art house Hindi cinema directors, including Govind Nihalani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Sudhir Mishra, Shekhar Kapoor, and Mahesh Bhatt, Vijay Singh. Her work encompassed multiple feature films, documentaries, short films, and television series.
Renu was a four-time winner of National Film Award for Best Editing for Parinda (1989), Dharavi (1991), Sardar (1993) and Godmother (1999) besides winning Filmfare Award for Best Editing again for Parinda (1989) and 1942: A Love Story (1994).
Renu was born into a Punjabi family. Renu applied to direction program of the Film and Television Institute of India Pune in 1974, but was not accepted into the program and ended up in the editing program instead. She graduated in 1976 and entered the film editing arena in India, which, at that time, was dominated by men.
She first edited, Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s diploma film, Murder at Monkey Hill (1976), for which she was credited as Associate Director too. The film went on to win the National Film Award for the Best Experimental Film in 1977-78. Once out of the FTII, Renu made her debut, with batch mate Saeed Akhtar Mirza's Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980), followed by with Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Sazaye Maut (1981), then another batch-mate Kundan Shah's comedy classic, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983), where her work received its first real acclaim. Her early work was in parallel cinema with her FTII colleagues - Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Saeed Mirza, Kundan Shah, and Ashok Ahuja.
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