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Indian film director (born 1938)

Sai Paranjpye (born 19 March 1938) is an Indian movie director and screenwriter. She is the director of the award-winning movies Sparsh, Katha, Chasme Buddoor and Disha. She has written and directed many Marathi plays such as Jaswandi, Sakkhe Shejari, and Albel.

She has won 4 National Film Awards and 2 Filmfare awards.

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The Government of India awarded Sai the Padma Bhushan in 2006 in recognition of her artistic talents.^[1]

Early years

Sai Paranjpye was born on 19 March 1938 in Mumbai to Russian Youra Sleptzoff and Shakuntala Paranjpye.^[2] Sleptzoff was a Russian watercolor artist and a son of a Russian general.

Shakuntala was an actor in Marathi and Hindi films in the 1930s and 1940s, including V. Shantaram's Hindi social classic, Duniya Na Mane (1937). Later she became a writer and a social worker, was nominated to Rajya Sabha, Upper House of Indian Parliament and was awarded the Padma Bhushan i Sai Paranjpye - Wikipedia ZYK