Ruchi Narain | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Notable work | Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi andKal: Yesterday and Tomorrow |
Ruchi Narain is an Indianfilm director, screenwriter, and producer widely known as the writer for the critically acclaimed filmHazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2003). She has also directed films likeKal: Yesterday and Tomorrow (2005),Hanuman: Da' Damdaar (2017) and Netflix original filmGuilty (2020).
Her family is originally fromNew Delhi, however, she has never lived there. She spent her early years in Calcutta, Dubai, Sri Lanka,Muscat, Oman where she attended theSultan's School,The Woodstock School in Mussoorie, and Qatar. She moved to Mumbai for College and has lived there ever since.[citation needed]
She started her career as an assistant director toSudhir Mishra inIs Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996). Subsequently, she was associate director, Second Unit Director andScreenplay writer and edited the filmHazaaron Khwaishein Aisi for which she won the Best StoryFilmfare Award,Zee Cine Award andStar Screen Award. It was a love story set against the political backdrop of India in the 1970s.
She was the writer-director of the contemporary urban thrillerKal: Yesterday and Tomorrow (2005), which also won her the Osian's Cinefan Film Festival Critics Award.[1] She raised the financing for this film by making a business plan and bringing together a consortium of 14 investors'.
Subsequently, she started the production company R.A.T Films with two partners Ashutosh Shah andTaher Shabbir which has done over a hundred commercials for a variety of products as well as produced the animation filmHanuman: Da' Damdaar (2017) which she wrote and directed. It was the biggest animation film release in India ever, voiced by the superstarSalman Khan and featuring a litany of Bollywood stars;Raveena Tandon,Javed Akhtar,Kunal Khemu,Vinay Pathak,Chunky Pandey,Saurabh Shukla andMakrand Deshpande.
Her filmGuilty (2020) onNetflix[2] starringKiara Advani has met with a lot of success and acclaim. It is set in an elite Delhi College and centers around an allegation of rape during the#MeToo Movement in India.
She has also was theshowrunner and the lead director for the 2020 8-part comedy series 'Hundred' on the platformDisney+ Hotstar[2] which she and her partners created, wrote and produced. The show is a light and irreverent take on two very different women who struggle to do what they want to do in the city of Mumbai. One of them is played byLara Dutta as a police woman who feels she can't break the glass ceiling. The other is a young girl, played byRinku Rajguru who discovers she has only a hundred days to live. Together, they try and make their lives count.
Narain is the single mother of her daughter Vira who she adopted in 2019.[3]
| Year | Film | Director | Writer | Producer | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Snip! | No | story | No | |
| 2003 | Calcutta Mail | No | Yes | No | Credit as Ruchi Narayan |
| 2003 | Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi | No | Yes | No | |
| 2005 | Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2006 | In The Pink | No | No | Yes | Wildlife documentary |
| 2007 | The Last Dance | No | No | Yes | Wildlife documentary |
| 2017 | Hanuman Da' Damdaar | Yes | Yes | Yes | Animation film |
| 2020 | Guilty | Yes | Yes | No | Netflix film |
| 2020 | Hundred | Yes | Yes | Yes | Web series |
| 2024 | Karmma Calling | Yes | Yes | No | Web series |
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