Aruna Raje
{{short description|Indian film director and editor (born 17 October1946)}}
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| birth_place = Pune, India
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| awards = Six National Awards
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Aruna Raje (born 1946) is an Indian film director and editor known for her works in Hindi cinema.{{cite web|url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707382/|title=Aruna Raje|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=10 July 2015}}
Early life
Aruna Raje was born on 17 October in 1946 in Pune, India.
Education and career
Aruna enrolled initially at Grant Medical College in Pune to study medicine but later quit to join the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). She passed out of FTII with a gold medal in 1969 becoming the first trained woman technician in the industry.{{cite web|url=http://parallelcinema.blogspot.in/2005/09/aruna-raje.html|title=Aruna Raje|publisher=Parallel Cinema|accessdate=10 July 2015}}
At the beginning of her career Aruna Raje worked jointly with her ex-husband Vikas Desai in the name of Aruna-Vikas. She co-edited acclaimed films like Giddh and Masoom. The duo later took to direction making films like Shaque, Gehrayee and Sitam. After separating from her husband she began independent film-direction, making hard hitting feminist movies.{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/mp/2004/03/22/stories/2004032202120400.htm|title=Between You and Me|date=22 March 2004|work=The Hindu|accessdate=10 July 2015}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
She has also made national award-winning documentaries on the well-known classical dancer Mallika Sarabhai and special children, The New Paradigm.{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/bollywood/interview.php?id=13391076&cid=2398|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050111203650/http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/interview.php?id=13391076&cid=2398|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 January 2005|title='Tum' isn't my life story: Aruna Raje|website=Sify|accessdate=10 July 2015}}
She has won 6 National Awards for her films.
Personal life
Filmography
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- 2009 Red Alert: The War Within (story)
- 2004 Tum?: A Dangerous Obsession (screenplay and story)
- 1996 Bhairavi (screenplay)
- 1988 Rihaee (screenplay and story)
- 1982 Sitam (co-written)
- 1980 Gehrayee (script)(co-written)
- 1976 Shaque (script)(co-written)
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References
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External links
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- [https://www.theshiftfocus.com/about-arunaraje-patil/ Arunaraje Patil] on [https://www.theshiftfocus.com/ Shift Focus, a school for Cinema and Life]
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Category:Indian women film directors
Category:Hindi-language film directors
Category:Indian women screenwriters
Category:Indian documentary filmmakers
Category:Indian women television directors
Category:Indian television directors
Category:Hindi-language screenwriters
Category:20th-century Indian women writers
Category:20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century Indian people
Category:Film directors from Maharashtra
Category:Women artists from Maharashtra