| 词条 | Venita Coelho |
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| name = Venita Coelho | image = Venita coelho author.jpg | birth_name = Venita Coelho | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}} | birth_place = Dehra Dun, Uttarkhand, India | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer, director and artist | language = English | residence = Goa | education = | period = First television series written and directed by in 1987 (Head Over Heels). First book published in 2007. | pseudonym = | genre = Novel, short story | movement = | notableworks = Film, television, children's literature. Washer of the Dead and Boy No.32. | alma_mater = St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, Sophia College for Women, Mumbai | awards = The Hindu/Good Reads award for best fiction for children 2016. | website = {{url|facebook.com/officialvenitacoelho}} | portaldisp = }}Venita Coelho is an Indian writer, director and artist and currently lives in Goa.[1][2][3] Coelho is credited with having made a mark for herself in children's literature, besides film and television.[4] Birth, EducationBorn in Dehra Dun, which today lies in Uttarakhand, Coelho grew up and was educated in Kolkatta (then Calcutta), where she attended St. Xavier's College. She later moved to Mumbai (Bombay), and did her diploma in Social Communications Media at the Sophia College there.[5] Career: Media and BooksAfter working in film and television for over a decade as writer-director-producer,[3] she re-located to Goa. She is now the author of seven published books,[4][6] including Dead As A Dodo, which won The Hindu/Good Reads award for best fiction for children 2016. In Films and TVHer career in television started as an intern at UTV in Mumbai. She has since written, produced and directed shows. She quit her decade long career in television when the saas-bahu genre became dominant. Coelho has said, "I couldn’t bring myself to do that to other women. Put out as a role model a heroine who only suffers endlessly." She returned to television to work on the show, Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin (an adaptation of Betty La Fea) which ran counter to the dominant narrative style of television to tell the story of an ugly underdog. For Indian television her writing credits include the series Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha, Amma and Family, Avishkar, Jungli Toofan Tyre Puncture, Trikaal and Head Over Heels. She has also written and directed telefilms -- Wild Rose, Picnic and The Lost Son. She gets co-writing credits on the Story/Screenplay for Musafir and the Adaptation and Screenplay credits for We Are Family. For Malaysian television she wrote Idaman. Her work for television in Singapore includes the telefilm, Angel, and the series Anything Goes, Rojak, Bold and Bollywood, Rehai among others. She has been Vice President, New Product Development at Sony Entertainment Television; Vice President, Fiction Content, Endemol India; Vice President, Fiction Content, Nimbus and Creative Head, Cinevistaas Ltd.[3] Coelho has written the daily soap Trikaal and Karan Johar's adaptation of Stepmom, We are Family.[5] She also wrote the script for Jassi Jaisa Koi Nahin in 2003.[2] Books Authored
In ArtCoelho works in oils and acrylics on canvas and glass. She held her first solo exhibition titled ‘The Naked Gaze’ in Goa in 2010. Columns and The MediaShe wrote a column for The Indian Express titled "The Tale of Two Cities" that covered the difference between lives in privileged South Mumbai and life beyond Bandra. Under the pseudonym "Hot Potato", she wrote a column for The Indian Express on the inner complications of working in the media. She wrote a series of short fictions in The Asian Age titled "Five Minute Fiction". Her column for The Herald (O Heraldo) in Goa was called "The Accidental Activist", and chronicled her challenges as part of the Goa Bachao Abhiyaan and the popular people's movement that protested a controversial Regional Plan for Goa. She is currently writing for film and television, and working towards an exhibition of her paintings.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} References1. ^{{cite web |title=Author profile |url=http://scholastic.co.in/en/authors/venita-coelho |accessdate=22 July 2018}} 2. ^1 {{cite web |title=Venita Coelho - the woman who ran away from Television |url=http://www.sify.com/news/venita-coelho-the-woman-who-ran-away-from-television-imagegallery-features-ki0qfJbeddesi.html |accessdate=22 July 2018}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=Venita Coelho |url=https://harpercollins.co.in/author-details/venita-coelho/ |accessdate=22 July 2018}} 4. ^1 {{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/children/power-in-her-pen/article23250727.ece|title=POWER in her pen|last=Kurian|first=Nimi|date=2018-03-15|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-10-22|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}} 5. ^1 {{cite web |title=When you think out of the box, they fire you |url=http://getahead.rediff.com/report/2010/jul/02/specials-interview-with-author-venita-coelho.htm |accessdate=22 July 2018}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/venita-coelho/1041430/|title=Venita Coelho Books {{!}} List of books by author Venita Coelho|last=ThriftBooks|website=ThriftBooks|language=en|access-date=2018-10-22}} 7. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=https://www.educationworld.in/neev-literature-festival-announces-shortlist-for-neev-childrens-book-awards/|title=Neev Literature Festival announces shortlist for ‘NEEV Children’s Book Awards’ - EducationWorld|website=www.educationworld.in|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-22}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.jayabhattacharjirose.com/an-interview-with-venita-coelho-boy-no-32/|title=An interview with Venita Coelho, "Boy No. 32" {{!}} Jaya's blog|website=www.jayabhattacharjirose.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-22}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://zubaanbooks.com/bookauthor/venita-coelho/|title=Venita Coelho {{!}} Author {{!}} Zubaan|website=zubaanbooks.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-22}} 10. ^{{Cite news|url=http://theweek.com/articles/575412/erica-jong-recommends-6-books-that-deal-death|title=Erica Jong recommends 6 books that deal with death|date=2015-09-06|access-date=2018-10-22}} 11. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.munsterlit.ie/FOC%20Award%20page.html|title=FOC Award|website=www.munsterlit.ie|access-date=2018-10-22}} Links
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