Anupama Chopra (Author) Wiki, Bio, Age, Career, Salary and more.

Anupama Chopra is a well-known Indian author, journalist and film critic. Shebis also the director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. She is also the founder and editor of the digital platform Film Companion. Also, she has written various books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for a long time. To know more about her, read till the end.

Personal Life

Anupama was born on 23 February 1967 in Kolkata, West Bengal. She is 55 years old (as of 2022). Her zodiac sign is Scorpio. She completed her primary schooling from her hometown. After that, she graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai with a BA in English Literature in 1987. Later, she did MA in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Her father’s name is Navin Chandra. Her mother’s name is Kamna Chandra. She was a scriptwriter who wrote dialogue for films like Prem Rog and Chandani. Her sister’s name is Tanuja Chandra. Chopra is married to Vidhu Vinod Chopra, a Hindi Film producer and director. The couple is blessed with a daughter and a son.

Bio of Anupama Chopra

Career

Anupama started her career as a journalist in New York with the magazine ‘Harper’s Bazaar’. After returning to India, she came to limelight when she wrote a detailed story about the mafia-culture in Bollywood. In 2000, she wrote her first book “Sholay: The Making of a Classic”. For this book, she has won National Award for the Best Book on Cinema.

Anupama has written scripts for many movies and shows. She is the founder and editor of the digital platform ‘Film Companion’. Also, she hosts it on YouTube, which gives a critical review of the films.

She also has hosted a film review show on NDTV 24X7 channel, ‘Picture This’. After that, she started her weekly review show on Star World named, ‘Front Row With Anupama Chopra’.

Net worth

The net worth of Anupama is estimated to be about 1.1 million approx (as of 2022). The primary source of her income comes from publishing books and other events.

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Some exciting facts about Anupama

• Anupama was born and brought up in Kolkata.
• While she was in Medill, she won the Harrington Award for “academic excellence and promise for success in the field of magazine journalism”.

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• She has won National Award for the Best Book on Cinema for the book “Sholay: The Making of a Classic” in 2001.

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