Sooni Taraporevala is a director, writer and producer in Hindi and English cinema, credited on Yeh Ballet (2020).
Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is an Indian screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker. She is known for the screenplays of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake (an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel of the same name), and the Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, all directed by Mira Nair. She also adapted Rohinton Mistry's novel Such A Long Journey (1998). She wrote the films Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, her directorial debut Little Zizou (2008), and Yeh Ballet (2020), a Netflix original film that she also directed.
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Filmography.
| Year | Film | Role | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Yeh Ballet | Director | Hindi |
| 2008 | Little Zizou | Director · Writer · Producer | Hindi |
| 1991 | Mississippi Masala | Writer | English |
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