Aleya Sen is an Indian director, producer and writer of

Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is primarily produced in Mumbai. The popular term Bollywood is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and "Cinema of the United States, Hollywood". The in ...

films. She made her directorial and writing debut with the film '' Dil Juunglee'' (2018). She also produced the film ''

Badhaai Ho ''Badhaai Ho'' (; ) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma and produced by Sharma, Aleya Sen and Hemant Bhandari under Chrome Pictures and Vineet Jain under Junglee Pictures. It stars Ayushmann ...

'' in 2018.

Career

Sen started her career as an assistant director under

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in Delhi. In 2004, Sen along Amit Sharma and Hemant Bhandari, established Chrome Pictures Pvt Ltd. a production house in

Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 ...

. In 2018, Aleya co-produced the comedy drama ''

'', and made her debut as a director and script writer with '' Dil Juunglee''. Her next film, '' Trial Period'', was released in 2023. She also served as a creative producer for Netflix's ''

Lust Stories 2 ''Lust Stories 2'' is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language anthology film, and second installment of ''Lust Stories'', consisting of four short film segments directed by R. Balki, Konkona Sen Sharma, Amit Ravindernath Sharma and Sujoy Ghosh. Co-produc ...

''.

Filmography

*'' Dil Juunglee'' (2018) (director) *''

'' (2018) (producer) * '' Trial Period'' (2023) (writer) (director)

Awards

* Bronze Medal at the ‘Cannes Lion and gold at ‘Goa film festival’ for ‘THE SILENT NATIONAL ANTHEM’ in 2011.

References

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