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Anupama Chopra is a film critic, National Award-winning book author and journalist. She is the chairperson of the Film Critics Guild and Director of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. She has covered cinema since 1993 in multiple mediums – print, television and digital. She has worked with India Today, NDTV 2/7, Star World and is currently the founder and editor of the digital platform Film Companion, which offers a curated look at cinema and entertainment. She has also written about cinema for various international publications including The New York Times, Variety and Sight and Sound. Anupama has authored several books, including King of Bollywood - Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian, which was featured on the Editor’s Choice list of the New York Times Sunday book review and translated into German, Indonesian and Polish. Anupama received an MA in journalism from Northwestern University.
Ms Anupama Chopra is an acknowledged film journalist and author who has won awards for her writing. As a film critic and journalist, her current role has made her words important for audiences on any new Indian film. Based on her reviews, people create personal opinions regarding the movie and the casting. She is very candid in her views as she presents them in the light of the Orange City Literature Festival to the equally open question put forth by Radhika Dhawad. When she is asked to throw some light on the role of films and entertainment in society, she says that both are interlinked. Movies have their roots in the 'Social and Cultural' arena. She often refused to pass any negative comment for any film because she understands the high degree of hard work, perseverance, and perspiration put into the direction and casting. Apart from being a celebrated writer and journalist, she is the wife of a successful and renowned film director, Vidhu Vinod Chopra. This keeps her close to the world of Bollywood. That's her small world of the written word!