Alaka Sahani (born 1974) is an Indian film critic and Senior Assistant Editor with the

Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language India, Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the Indian Express Limited, ''Indian Express Group''. It was later taken over by Ramnat ...

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, and heads its Features section. She received the Swarna Kamal as the best film critic at the 61st

National Film Awards The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Cinema of India, Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India ...

2014. Alaka studied in different parts of

Odisha Odisha (), formerly Orissa (List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2011), is a States and union territories of India, state located in East India, Eastern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by ar ...

. She did her schooling at Barabati Girls High School, Baleswar, FM College, Baleswar and SB Women's College, Cuttack. Alaka is a graduate from the

Indian Institute of Mass Communication Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) is a deemed-to-be-university, established on 17 August 1965, Delhi. Considered as the best media education institute of the country, it has five regional centers across India. The IIMC is an autonom ...

Dhenkanal Dhenkanal is a town and a municipality in Dhenkanal district in the state of Odisha, India. Geography Dhenkanal is at . It has an average elevation of 80 metres (262 feet). Demographics As per the 2011 India census, Dhenkanal had a p ...

, Odisha.

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Living people Indian film critics 1974 births Indian Express Limited people Indian women film critics Best Critic National Film Award winners {{India-film-bio-stub