1. Career
    Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010  Columnist  Zee TV  Other landmarks 

2. Claim to be Indira Gandhi's grand-daughter

3. References

Career

Priya has been an Additional Director General, Activist, Columnist, Roving Editor, Producer, Director, Writer, Anchor, Consultant, in the fields of television, films, live events, government, sports, geopolitical projects, civil society and public life.^{[2][3] [4]}

Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010

In 2009, the Commonwealth Games was facing numerous managerial and administration hassles for which the governing body decided to appoint key bureaucrats to streamline the project. Priya Singh Paul, with a vast experience in media, product launches, event management and senior managerial and corporate experience, was brought in as Additional Director General in January, 2010 nine months before the Games were to be held and continued till 2011 end. Her role in the 2010 Commonwealth Games was the creation, administration and implementation of programmes in association with various State Governments and administrations of Union Territories along with the Commonwealth Games Federation, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Ministry of External Affairs (India), Security agencies, and Government of Delhi.

Columnist

She has written articles for the Hindustan Times, The Statesman, Mid Day and Plus News Bank.^{[9] [10]}

Zee TV

Priya became producer and director in the Zee TV group headed by Subhash Chandra.

Her first production was Bazaar Buzz, a daily stock market programme, whose chief advisor was DSP Merrill Lynch owned by Hemendra Kothari at that time. It was a telecast from Hong Kong. Then in August 1993, she created the 'Dream Merchants', India's first programme on advertising and marketing which was anchored by Piyush Pandey, Kamlesh Pandey, Alyque Padamsee, Bharat Dabolkar, and Jagdeep Kapoor.^[11][12]

She was the producer and director of "Swayamvar 2000", India’s first game show with celebrities like Sachin Tendulkar, Aishwarya Rai, Urmila Matondkar, Malaika Arora Khan and many more as participants in 1995.^[13]

She made her first Telefilm " Humein Jahan Pyaar Mile" for Zee Cinema in her 20s. She was the writer, producer, director for the same.^[14]

Priya made her feature film "The Perfect Husband (2003), a romantic comedy cum social satire, predominantly in English with a smattering of Hindi and Punjabi, in the year 2004. It is a modern and thought-provoking look at the Indian marriage 'game'- the quest for the only security symbol that most Indian women possesses: a husband, perfect or otherwise!

The movie was invited to Palm Spring International Film Festival and shown in Cannes Film Festival.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

The movie rights were purchased by 20th Century Fox and Eros International. However, a court case on flimsy ground by the co-financier stalled the release.

Other landmarks

Priya has been on the Jury for Emmy Awards and Indian Telly Awards.^[20]

Priya was the Head of Programming and Chief Operating Officer for the launch of Just TV Punjabi now called GET PUNJABI, a Punjabi channel telecast in the USA and Canada, in 2008 after which she moved to Zee Group as Head Consultant of Business and Programming creating programme ideas, business, media, marketing and PR plans.^[21]

Claim to be Indira Gandhi's grand-daughter

Priya Singh Paul has claimed that Sanjay Gandhi, (son of Indira Gandhi) was her biological father^[22], and that she was given away by her biological family for adoption. In June 2017, she gave a legal notice in her capacity as his daughter to stop the release of a film on Sanjay Gandhi.^[23]

Paul said that she was adopted by her foster parents Shiela Singh Paul and Balwant Paul in 1968, the year of her birth. Priya Singh Paul claimed that she was born in 1968 and adopted in 1974, and that the reason given for her adoption was that since her biological father was in politics, the child was required to stay separately for sometime and also that her mother was underage back then. Paul said she had been adopted as a baby and claimed she was told about Sanjay Gandhi being her biological father after she grew up^[24]

References

• Jan van der Watt
• Jan van der Wiel
• Jan Van der Wiel
• Jan Van Der Wiel
• Jan van de Velde
• Jan van Diepenbeek
• Jan Van Dijk
• Jan van Dijk (football)
• Jan van Dommelen
• Jan van eijden
• Jan Van Eijden
• Jan Van Esbroeck
• Jan van Everdingen
• Jan Van Eyck Academie
• Jan van Eyck Academie
• Jan Van Gilse
• Jan van Gool
• Jan van Haensbergen
• Jan van Helsing
• Jan van Herwijnen
• Jan van Hoeck
• Jan van Hoek
• Jan Van Hoesen House
• Jan van Hoof
• Jan van Hooff (politician)