Maithili Rao
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Maithali Rao
| birth_date = 1943
| birth_place = Secunderabad, Hyderabad State, India
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Author
- Journalist
- Film Critic
- Lecturer
- Subtitlist
}}
| language = English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu
| nationality = Indian
| spouse = {{marriage|Shyam Rao|1967}}
| children = {{unbulleted list|Shamita Dewan}}
}}
Maithili Rao is an Indian freelance film critic, writer, journalist and former English lecturer based in Mumbai.{{Cite web |title=Maithili Rao |url=https://miff.in/maithili-rao/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925235357/https://miff.in/maithili-rao/ |archive-date=25 September 2020 |access-date=2 May 2021 |website=Mumbai International Film Festival}}{{Cite magazine |last=Rao |first=Maithili |date=2002 |title=And Now We Speak English |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpAHAQAAIAAJ |issue=56–62 |page=3 |access-date=2 May 2021 |magazine=Cinemaya}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5tKAQAAIAAJ |title=Indian Horizons |date=1995 |publisher=Indian Council for Cultural Relations |volume=44 |page=287 |access-date=2 May 2021}} She has worked for several publications, including The Hindu, Frontline, Film Comment, the Sunday Observer, Gentleman, The Independent, and Screen.{{fact|date=May 2023}}
Career
Rao worked as a journalist for The Hindu, Frontline, Film Comment, Gentleman, Man's World, Cinema in India, and South Asian Cinema; the latter two were published by the National Film Development Corporation of India and South Asian Cinema Foundation, which was based in London.{{Cite web |title=India: Maithili Rao |url=https://www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/apsa-academy-members/maithili-rao |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026091943/https://www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/apsa-academy-members/maithili-rao |archive-date=26 October 2020 |access-date=2 May 2021 |website=Asia Pacific Screen Awards}} She wrote the column "Image of Women" in the newspaper Eye's Weekly for ten years. She is also a film critic for the Sunday Observer, The Independent, Screen, The Free Press Journal, Bombay, and Zee Premiere.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h9QOAQAAIAAJ |title=The New Generation, 1960-1980 |date=1981 |publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals |page=183}} In 2003, she contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema, an encyclopaedia book about Hindi cinema that was published by Popular Prakashan.{{Cite book |last1=Gulzar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema |last2=Nihalani |first2=Govind |last3=Chatterjee |first3=Saibal |date=2003 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-7991-066-5 |page=xix |language=en |author-link=Gulzar |author-link2=Govind Nihalani |author-link3=Saibal Chatterjee |access-date=2 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405040645/https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC |archive-date=5 April 2019 |url-status=live}}
Rao served as a jury at The Golden Elephant (also known as International Children's Film Festival India) and the Mumbai International Film Festival. She has authored one books, titled Smita Patil: A Brief Incandescence, a biographical book on the Indian actress Smita Patil published by HarperCollins. According to the Indo-Asian News Service, "The book is not only a long-pending due to this accomplished but instinctive actress but also an invaluable distillation of some of the best of Indian cinema, which could easily rise above mindless escapism to sensitively portray society and its inequities and injustices—especially towards women, whose plight Smita can so touchingly render."{{Cite news |date=6 November 2015 |title=An intense performance: Smita Patil's life and films (Book Review) |work=Business Standard |agency=Indo-Asian News Service |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/an-intense-performance-smita-patil-s-life-and-films-book-review-115110600210_1.html |url-status=live |access-date=2 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502123136/https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/an-intense-performance-smita-patil-s-life-and-films-book-review-115110600210_1.html |archive-date=2 May 2021}} The Times of India listed it amongst the "top 25 good reads" of 2015.{{Cite news |date=22 December 2015 |title=Top 25 Good Reads of 2015 |work=The Times of India |url=https://photogallery.indiatimes.com/top-25-good-reads-of-2015/articleshow/49980594.cms |url-status=live |access-date=2 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502123055/https://photogallery.indiatimes.com/top-25-good-reads-of-2015/articleshow/49980594.cms |archive-date=2 May 2021}}
Bibliography
- {{Cite book |last=Rao |first=Maithili |title=Smita Patil: A Brief Incandescence |date=2015 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-93-51775-12-6}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Rao |first1=Maithili |title=The Oldest Love Story : A Motherhood Anthology |last2=Bhattacharya |first2=Rinki Roy |date=2022 |publisher=Om Books International |isbn=978-93-92834-36-3}}
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Category:21st-century Indian biographers
Category:Indian women journalists
Category:Indian women columnists