Ruchi Narain is a Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

 (Bombay)-based film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and screenwriter, most known as the writer for the film Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, is an Indian movie made by director Sudhir Mishra in 2003, but released in 2005. Set against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 70s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes...

(2003), and later directed KAL - Yesterday and Tomorrow (2005).

Early life and education

She spent her early years in Muscat

Muscat, Oman

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, Oman and Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

, where she attended the Sultan's School.

Career

She started her career as an assistant to Sudhir Mishra

Sudhir Mishra

Sudhir Mishra is an Indian film director and screenwriter most renowned for directing critically acclaimed films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Dharavi and Chameli.-Early life and education:...

 in Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin

Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin

Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin is a 1996 Hindi thriller film directed by Sudhir Mishra. The film stars Tara Deshpande and Nirmal Pandey, and the entire plot of the film takes place through a single night. The film is based on a story by Sudhir Mishra's brother, Sudhanshu Mishra, who died in 1995. The...

(1996). Subsequently, she was associate Producer, assistant director and Screenplay writer

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 for the film Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, is an Indian movie made by director Sudhir Mishra in 2003, but released in 2005. Set against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 70s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes...

for which she won the Best Screenplay Filmfare Award, Zee Cine Award

Zee Cine Awards

The Zee Cine Awards or "ZCA" for short is an awards ceremony for the Hindi film industry. It was first held in 1998 in Mumbai. Since then, it has gained substantial popularity as a notable awards ceremony to the Indian population as well as to the viewers of Zee Network.In 2004, the ZCA went...

 and Star Screen Award

Star Screen Awards

The Star Screen Awards is an annual awards ceremony in India honoring professional excellence in film. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professional from the industry itself.- History :...

. She was the writer-director of KAL - Yesterday and Tomorrow (2005), which also won her critical acclaim.

Writing Credits

• Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow (2005)
• Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
  Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
  Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, is an Indian movie made by director Sudhir Mishra in 2003, but released in 2005. Set against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 70s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes...
  
  (2003)
• Calcutta Mail (2003) (screenplay)
• Snip! (2000) (story)

Awards

• Filmfare Award
  • Best Story: Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
    Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
    Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, is an Indian movie made by director Sudhir Mishra in 2003, but released in 2005. Set against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 70s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes...
    
    

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