Sabrina Dhawan
Screenwriter
Mira Nair...Taraporevala. Nair's most popular film to date, Monsoon Wedding (2001), about a chaotic Punjabi Indian wedding with a screenplay by Sabrina Dhawan, was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice film festival. Her 2004 version... In this article: Mira Nair, Sooni Taraporevala, Mississippi Masala, Harvard University, New York City, Academy Awards, Bombay, Delhi University, Venice Film Festival, and The Namesake |
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Blogcritics | October 29, 2009
Blu-ray Review: Monsoon Wedding (The Criterion Collection)
...Monsoon Wedding is not the easiest of tasks. The 2001 film, shot by Declan Quinn with a script from Sabrina Dhawan, is the tale of the wedding of the only daughter of a Punjabi family in Delhi. As with so much of Nair's work, the film...
In this article: Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair, The Criterion Collection, Blu-ray, Declan Quinn, and Tillotama Shome
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Filmcritic.com DVD Reviews | October 13, 2009
Monsoon Wedding - 10/20/2009
...everyone's vulnerable side. When Lalit sobs in frustration on his wife's shoulders it matters because Nair and Dhawan take the time into making the characters more than just by-products of a sitcom predicament. Aside from its dramatic...
In this article: Mira Nair, Monsoon Wedding, New Delhi, DVD, Celluloid, Lillete Dubey, Naseeruddin Shah, Vasundhara Das, and The Perez Family
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | August 21, 2009
Kaminey beats Tarantino: Shekhar Kapur
...through. Vishal better think hard about how to surpass this one." The credits, he points out, include Sabrina Dhawan, who also wrote Mira Nair's "best film" Monsoon Wedding , "which also had the same pattern of many stories being told...
In this article: Kaminey, Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Monsoon Wedding, All rights reserved, Economic Times, Dev D, Reliance Industries, and Ronnie Screwvala
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Wikipedia | October 30, 2009
Cosmopolitan (film)
...little gem," in the 1998 anthology. They signed award-winning screenwriter Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding) to adapt it for their newly formed New York-based independent production company, Gigantic Pictures. "The rights to short stories are...
In this article: Cosmopolitan, Carol Kane, Chutney Popcorn, Nisha Ganatra, Roshan Seth, Akhil Sharma, and PBS
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Wikipedia | October 17, 2009
Monsoon Wedding
...during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi. Writer Sabrina Dhawan wrote the first draft of the screenplay in a week while she was at Columbia University's MFA film program. Monsoon Wedding earned just above $30 million at the box...
In this article: Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair, Venice Film Festival, Farida Khanum, Biwi No.1, Ria Verma, Canberra International Film Festival, and Columbia University
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Description from Wikipedia:
Sabrina Dhawan is an England-born Indian screenwriter, most well known for her postmodern depiction of India in Monsoon Wedding, a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair and of 9.11.01, a series of short films for Canal Plus (also directed by Mira Nair) as well as Cosmopolitan for PBS.
Her short film Saanjh - As Night Falls was awarded the Best of the Festival at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, the Audience Award at Angelus Awards and Most Original Film by New Line Cinema at the Polo Ralph Lauren New Works Festival in 2000. She has a brief cameo in Monsoon Wedding as wedding guest.
She currently lives in New York with her husband, Steve Cohen, who wrote Chris O'Donnell's The Bachelor (film), and their son, Kabir. She is also a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, in the Department of Dramatic Writing.
- Name At Birth:
- Sabrina Dhawan
- Spouse:
- Steve Cohen (2002–present)
- Period:
- Postmodern
- Influenced By:
- Mira Nair, Woody Allen, Thomas Vinterberg
- Influenced:
- Wes Anderson, Jason Reitman, Judd Apatow, Coen Brothers, Spike Lee
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