# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sooni-taraporevala
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:37:08.283Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/sooni-taraporevala"
name: "Sooni Taraporevala"
slug: "sooni-taraporevala"
description: "Sooni Taraporevala is an Indian screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker. She is known for the screenplays of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, and the Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, all directed by Mira Nair. She also adapted Rohinton Mistry's novel Such A Long Journey (1998). She wrote the films Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, her directorial debut Little Zizou (2008), and Yeh Ballet (2020), a Netflix original film that she also directed."
tagline: "Indian film director (born 1957)"
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gender: "female"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1957"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump