Anupama Chopra is a noted author, journalist and film critic. She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a movie reviewer with NDTV

NDTV

NDTV is an Indian commercial broadcasting television network founded in 1988. It was founded by Prannoy Roy, an eminent journalist and current chairman and director of NDTV Group. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from over twenty locations in India...

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India Today

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Career

Chopra is a noted writer and has written several books. Anupama's first book Sholay: The Making of a Classic won the prestigious National Award for the best book on cinema. Her next book Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (The Bravehearted will take the bride), was published by the British Film Institute in 2002, as part of their Modern Classics Series. Her book, King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema, was featured on the Editor's Choice list of the New York Times Book Review. Her new book First Day First Show: Writings from the Bollywood Trenches, is a compilation of her articles on Hindi cinema over two decades, published by Penguin India.

Her work has been published in India Today, India’s largest English language magazine. She has also written about Bollywood for various international publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Variety and Sight & Sound. Currently, Anupama presents and scripts a weekly film review show called Picture This on NDTV 24/7.

Personal life

Chopra is married to Bollywood filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian director and producer. Chopra is the head of his own company, Vinod Chopra Productions, and is particularly known for producing the Munna Bhai films and 3 Idiots.-Early life:Born in a Punjabi family of Kashmir,...

. She is the sister of Bollywood director and screenwriter Tanuja Chandra and internationally acclaimed writer & Commonwealth Prize winner Vikram Chandra

Vikram Chandra

Vikram Chandra is an Indian writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book....

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External links

• Anupama Chopra website