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A Patchwork Quilt
A Collage of My Creative Life
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Award-winning director; author; theatre, radio and TV personality; and recipient of the Padma Bhushan the patchwork quilt of Sai Paranjpyes life is indeed multicoloured. Born to noted author and social worker Shakuntala Paranjpye and Russian artist Youra Sleptzoff, and granddaughter of acclaimed mathematician Sir R.P. Paranjpye, Sai started her career at All India Radio, Pune. She also launched the Childrens Theatre in the city. She then graduated from the National School of Drama, training under Ebrahim Alkazi, and going on to direct many popular and critically acclaimed plays. Later, she joined Doordarshan, where she produced the inaugural programme of Bombay Doordarshan. She is, of course, best known for her landmark films, which won national and international awards Sparsh, Katha, Disha, Papeeha and Saaz and the evergreen Chashme Buddoor. Her successful forays into different media still continue she won the Sahitya Akademi award in 2019 for her Marathi translation of Naseeruddin Shahs memoir. Frank, forthright and full of lively anecdotes, A Patchwork Quilt is a captivating account of Sai Paranjpyes multifarious journey.
About the Author:
Sai Paranjpye is an award-winning multimedia personality. Her first book of fairy tales was published when she was only eight years old. All India Radio was her grooming ground where she did Marathi and English announcements, compèred childrens programmes, and wrote and produced many childrens plays. These were then mounted by the Childrens Theatre, Pune, which she launched with Arun Joglekar. They were also published in book form, and many of them went on to win state and national laurels. After graduating from the National School of Drama, she wrote and produced numerous plays in Delhi, Bombay and Pune. She then joined Doordarshan as one of its first six producers. Her telefilm, The Little Tea Shop, won her the Asian Broadcasting Union award and, in 1972, she had the honour of producing the inaugural programme of Bombay Doordarshan. Her landmark films Sparsh, Chashme Buddoor, Katha, Disha, Papeeha and Saaz which established her as a scriptwriter and director of excellence, won her national and international accolades. Sai was awarded the Padma Bhushan for her work in the media in 2006.
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