Anupama Chopra is an Indian author, journalist and film critic.
Background
Anupama Chopra was born as Anupama Chandra in Calcutta, India to Chandra Parshad family. Her father Navin Chandra was the eldest of the brothers and sisters of Anupama"s grandfather, originally from Delhi, was an executive with Union Carbide, and her mother Kamna Chandra was a scriptwriter. She wrote dialogues for such films as Prem Rog (1982) and Chandni (1989).
Chopra grew up with her brother and sister in Mumbai, where her family lived in Nepean Sea Road and then in Cuffe Parade.
Education
In 1987, she graduated from Saint Xavier"s College, Mumbai with a Bachelor in English Literature.
Career
She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV, India Today, as well as the Hindustan Times. She also hosted a weekly film review show The Front Row With Anupama Chopra, on Star World. She has also lived in Badaiyon, a city in Uttar Pradesh. She also lived in Hong Kong for several years as a teenager.
Later received Master of Arts from Northwestern University in Journalism.
Thereafter she decided to become a film journalist. She earned her Master of Arts in journalism from Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism.
She later said, "Film journalism was untouchable at the time. Everybody was ashamed and nobody wanted to admit that I worked for Movie."
Anupama Chopra has written several books
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (The Bravehearted Will Take The Bride) (2002) was published by the British Film Institute as part of their Modern Classics Series.
Her book, King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema, was featured on the annual "Editor"s Choice" list of the New York Times Book Review. Her 2011 book First Day First Show: Writings from the Bollywood Trenches, is a compilation of her articles on Hindi cinema over two decades, published by Penguin India. Chopra"s work has been published in India Today, India"s largest English-language magazine.
She has also written about Bollywood for various international publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Variety and Sight & Sound.
She hosted film review show, Picture This on NDTV 24X7 news channel. In 2012, she started her weekly review show called The Front Row with Anupama Chopra, on Star World, which ran till June 2014.
In 2013, she released two books, Freeze Frame based on the interviews with filmmakers and actors on the television show, and 100 Films to See before You Die based on her weekly film columns.
