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Zinda Bhaag earned her critical acclaim worldwide and was theatrically released in USA, UAE and Pakistan.
And then from SOAS, University of London.
Recently her portrait was added to the walls of SOAS, University of London, to celebrate her notable work. It was subsequently released on Netflix in 2015.
Meenu Gaur
Meenu Gaur is a renowned director and screenwriter but London-based and a British-Indian. Zinda Bhaag was only the third Pakistani film in 50 years to get recognition at the Oscars, after 1959's The Day Shall Dawn and 1963's The Veil.
South Asian Studies Program
Meenu Gaur
Spring 2017 Event (2 of 2)
“New Pakistani Cinema”
Featuring Meenu Gaur, Co-Writer and Director of Zinda Bhaag
Monday, April 24, 2017
Q&A with Meenu Gaur and Ulka Anjaria
Zinda Bhaag Film Screening
About Meenu Gaur
Meenu Gaur is the co-writer and director of the critically acclaimed film Zinda Bhaag (Run for your Life, 2013).
Gaur has received fourteen international awards and has featured in several publications like LA Times, The New York Times, The Gulf Times, Khaleej Times, and many more.
Meenu Gaur
Meenu was born to Indian parents of Uttar Pradesh origin in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has been working since 2007.
is to the West. and succeeding in ways they had least expected. Soon, we were in Karachi, we started working on Zinda Bhaag. Khaldi, Taambi and Chitta, all in their early twenties, believe that the only way out ... She is married to Mazhar Zaidi. Both of them have made much-appreciated documentaries (Nusrat Has Left the Building…But When and Nar Narman).
She is presently working on a feature film titled 'Barzakh:Between Heaven and Hell' supported by the Locarno International Film Festival's Open Doors Hub Programme.
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Zinda Bhaag became one of the highest-grossing of Pakistan and has won many accolades and recognition including an official selection for Best Foreign Language Film at 86th Academy Awards however was out of the competition for the final race. I too made documentaries intermittently. She has graduated from Lady Shri Ram College and then from Jamia Milia Islamia, Ph.D.
We moved to Pakistan for what we thought would be a brief stint when Mazhar got an offer to head the current affairs television channel of Dawn newspaper. She stated in an interview telling her idea about making film:
While I was doing my PhD in filmmaking at the School of Oriental and African Studies,London, I met Mazhar Zaidi, who was a journalist with the BBC for 13 years.
She was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. This film made an entry to Oscars. She attended Lady Shri Ram College for Women for graduation and then joined Jamia Millia Islamia and completed her master's in film making.