Clare Mendonça
{{short description|Indian journalist}}
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| name = Clare Mendonça
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| caption = Mendonça in 1939
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| birth_date = 1910
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| death_date = 1953 (aged 43)
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| education = St. Xavier's College, Bombay
| occupation = {{hlist|Journalist}}
| employer = Times of India
| years_active = 1931–1953
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| known_for = One of the first female journalists of India
| credits = Filmfare Awards were earlier called Clare Awards in her honour
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Clare Mendonça (1910–1953) was a prominent film journalist in India, whose film reviews had a large readership. After her early death, she was honoured when the Clare Award, now the Filmfare Award, was instituted in 1954.{{Cite web|title=Clare Mendonça|url=https://wiki.indiancine.ma/wiki/Clare%20Mendonca|access-date=6 December 2020|website=Indiancine.ma Wiki}}
Career
Family
Her family members included siblings Msgr Filipe Neri de Mendonça, Padre Guilherme de Mendonça and Frederico Mendonça.{{Cite web|title=Clare de Mendonça|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Clare-de-Mendon%C3%A7a/6000000010170231013|access-date=6 December 2020|website=Geni|date=4 March 2019 }} Fr. Felipe Neri Mendonça was an outstanding educationist and a strict disciplinarian, principal from 1931 at the prominent English-medium St. Joseph's High School, Arpora, credited with constructing a new school building inaugurated in 1937, on the golden jubilee celebrations of the school.{{Cite web|title="Padriponn" (Priesthood) - Part 4 (Final)|url=https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg10428.html|author=Domnic Fernandes|date=16 March 2007|access-date=6 December 2020|via=The Mail Archive}}
Education, posts
Mendonça graduated from St. Xavier's College in Bombay. She was elected as a co-vice president of the Film Journalists Association in 1939 when founded in Bombay, a post she shared with Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, under the presidency of Baburao Patel.
Mendonça also wrote popular weekend film reviews in The Times of India Sunday supplement.
Award named
According to The Times of India, the Filmfare Awards were "earlier supposed to be called, The Clare Awards after the newspaper's film critic, Clare Mendonça".{{Cite news|title=Filmfare Awards: Lesser known facts|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/photo-features/filmfare-awards-lesser-known-facts/photostory/45953096.cms|access-date=6 December 2020|work=The Times of India}} She has been called "one of the earliest film journalists in India".{{Cite web|title=Weekend Quiz : Guess who is she, and her significance in Indian Film Industry?|url=https://twitter.com/p1j/status/581728913971236865|access-date=6 December 2020|website=Twitter}}{{rs|date=July 2021}}
References
Category:Indian women film critics
Category:St. Xavier's College, Mumbai alumni
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