Deepa Bhatia is a

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 ...

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

, producer and director based in Mumbai. She is known for editing commercially successful films like ''Tare Zameen Par'', ''My Name is Khan'', ''Rock On'', ''Kai Po Che'', '' Student of the Year'' and ''Raees''. Furthermore, she has also edited ''Kedarnath'', ''Drive'' and the much talked about biopic on

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, '' Sachin: A Billion Dreams''. Deepa believes that editing is making something the best it can be. In her own words, "A movie is written thrice. Once, when it is written, the second, when it is directed, and the third, when it is edited. It is unfortunate that editors don't get their due. It frustrates me when people think cutting is editing." In 2010, UTV World Movies chose her as the personality of the month to pick four movies of her choice from the channel's collection. The movies she picked were '' Machuca'', ''

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'', ''Twin Sisters'' and ''

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''.

Career

Deepa started her career by assisting directors before venturing into full-time into post-production. She has over 20 years of experience as an editor and has worked with directors like

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( ''Dev'', ''

Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa ''Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa'' () is a 1998 Indian feature film that deals with the life of a woman who loses her son, a Naxalite, to the violence that is a result of his adopted ideology. The film is directed produced by Govind Nihalani and is bas ...

'', '' Deham'') and

Jahnu Barua Jahnu Barua (born 1952) is an Indian film director. He has written and directed a number of Assamese language, Assamese and Hindi films. Some of his notable films are ''Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai'' (1987), ''Firingoti'' (1992), ''Xagoroloi B ...

( ''Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara'', ''Har Pall''). Her editing work on films like '' Kai Po Che'' and '' Rock On'' has been one of her most noteworthy projects and has bagged her awards like the

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. Apart from her career as a film editor in

, she has also directed and produced a critically acclaimed documentary titled ''Nero’s Guests: The Age of Inequality'' about farmer suicides in

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. The documentary won two awards at

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(MIFF). It took Deepa 5 years to direct and a year to edit this challenging documentary.

Personal life

Deepa is married to screenwriter,

Amole Gupte Amole Gupte (born ) is an Indian screenwriter, actor, singer and director, known for his work on the 2007 film '' Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth)'' as a creative director and screenwriter. He conceived the film along with his wife, Dee ...

and they have a son Partho Gupte. She is an alumna of Sophia Polytechnic.

Filmography

Editor

Director

* ''Nero's Guests: The Age of Inequality'' (Documentary)

Awards

* Won: Best Editing – ''

Rock On!! ''Rock On!!'' is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film written and directed by Abhishek Kapoor, produced by Farhan Akhtar, and with music by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy. The film marks the Bollywood debut of Akhtar and Prachi Desai. A ...

'' * Won: John Abraham National Award for Best Documentary in SIGNS 2011 – Nero's Guests * Won: Best Editing – ''

Kai Po Che! ''Kai Po Che!: Brothers... For Life'' () is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language sports drama film directed by Abhishek Kapoor and produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur under UTV Motion Pictures, marking the banner's first solo productio ...

References

External links

* * Vij, Gauri. "" ''

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