Anupama Chopra

Anupama Chopra

Anupama Chopra (born 23 February 1967) is an Indian author, journalist, film critic and director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.  She is also the founder and editor of the digital platform Film Companion which offers a curated look at cinema.  She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV, India Today,  as well as the Hindustan Times. She also hosted a weekly film review show The Front Row With Anupama Chopra, on Star World.  She won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema for her first book Sholay: The Making of a Classic. She presently critiques movies and interviews celebrities for Film Companion.

Born as Anupama Chandra in Calcutta, India to Chandra Parshad family, She has also lived in Badayun, a city in Uttar Pradesh. Her father Navin Chandra was the eldest of the brothers and sisters. Anupama's grandfather, originally from Delhi, was an executive with Union Carbide, and her mother Kamna Chandra was a scriptwriter; she wrote dialogues for such films as Prem Rog (1982) and Chandni (1989).  Chopra grew up with her brother and sister in Mumbai, where her family lived in Nepean Sea Road and then in Cuffe Parade. Her sister Tanuja Chandra is an Indian Film director and screenwriter; and her brother Vikram Chandra is a novelist, who splits his time between California and India.  She also lived in Hong Kong for several years as a teenager. In 1987, she graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai with a BA in English Literature.

Later, Chopra earned her MA in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She won the Harrington Award for "academic excellence and promise for success in the field of magazine journalism" while at Medill. She later said, "Film journalism was untouchable at the time. Everybody was ashamed and nobody wanted to admit that I worked for Movie."
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