Rajashree is an Indian novelist and film-maker. She has been working in the

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 ...

film industry after studying film direction at the

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. She has written and directed a film, ''The Rebel'', which won a

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in the Best Short Fiction Film category at the

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. The jury presented the award "for showing an adolescent's journey to maturity and his coming to terms with his mother." The film was screened at many film festivals. She has made a film about communal violence called ''The Connection''. Her critically acclaimed debut, '' Trust Me'', is the biggest-selling Indian chick lit novel. It is set in

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, the

film industry, and uses the narrative structure of a 'masala' Bollywood film."Trust Me to spill beans on Bollywood"
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'', 2007-02-18. She currently lives and works in Mumbai, India.Rajashree's website
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