Sai Paranjape

Sai Paranjape was born on Mar 19, 1938 in British India. Sai Paranjape's big-screen debut came with The Touch directed by Sai Paranjape in 1980. Sai Paranjape is known for Disha directed by Sai Paranjape, Shabana Azmi stars as Hansa P. Sarpat and Nana Patekar as Vasant 'Vasanta' D. Mandre. Sai Paranjape has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Sai Paranjape achieved is Filmfare Awards. The upcoming new movie Sai Paranjape plays is Disha which will be released on Feb 01, 1992.

Sai Paranjpye has succeeded as a woman filmmaker of contemporary India in making work that has received both critical recognition and popular commercial appeal.She is of mixed ancestry with a Russian father and a mother from Maharashtra who had studied math in Cambridge,England.After her parents divorced,she grew up with her grandfather,an Indian commissioner in Australia who was awarded knighthood.She published a book at the precocious age of eight and in her later college years won awards for her acting.Before she became a filmmaker she wrote plays and programmes for children and studied for a year in France under the famed stage actor Jean Louis Barrault.A marriage to another theater artist, Arun Joglekar, failed but resulted in two children who became performers.