Sai Paranjpye

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.