| 词条 | Pamela Rooks | ||||||||||||||||
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| name = Pamela Rooks | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Pamela Juneja | birth_date = 1958 | birth_place = Kolkata, India | death_date = 1 October 2010 | death_place =New Delhi, India | nationality = | spouse = Conrad Rooks ({{abbr|d|divorced}}. 1985) | other_names = | known_for = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = film director, screenwriter | years_active =1992–2005 }}Pamela Rooks (1958 – 1 October 2010) was an Indian film director and screenwriter, most known for the film, Train to Pakistan (1998) set in Partition of India and based on Khushwant Singh's novel; it was screened at several international film festivals. Apart from that accomplishment she also made award-winning films like, Miss Beatty's Children (1992) and Dance Like a Man (2003) and several documentaries.[1] Early lifeShe was born Pamela Juneja in an Army household to Col. A. N. Juneja and Gudi Juneja. She did her schooling in boarding schools in Nainital and Shimla, where she became interested in dramatics.[1] Later, while studying mass communication in Delhi in the 1970s, she was involved with Delhi-based theatre group, Theatre Action Group (TAG), which was founded by theatre director, Barry John and Siddharth Basu, Roshan Seth, Lilette Dubey, and Mira Nair amongst others.[2][3] CareerShe started her career as a journalist and producer of current affairs programmes on television and it was during this period, for an interview, that she met director Conrad Rooks who had received much acclaim for his film, Siddhartha (1972). Subsequently they went on to marry.[3][4] Later this paved the way for her career as a documentary filmmaker and she made critically acclaimed documentaries, such as Chipko: A response to the forest crisis, Girl Child: fighting for survival, Punjab: a human tragedy and Indian cinema: the winds of change,[4] before making her first feature film, Miss Beatty's Children (1992), based on a novel of the same name by her.[5] The film won her the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the National Film Award.[6] Then in 1998 came her much anticipated film based on writer Khushwant Singh's historical novel, Train to Pakistan (1956), set in the Partition of India in 1947, while previous attempts by other people to turn the novel into film had failed.[7] The film ran into trouble with the Indian Censor Board, but was eventually released after going to a tribunal where only a few audio cuts were made.[8] Having seen playwright Mahesh Dattani's play Dance Like a Man, a friend, the late dancer Protima Bedi, who had also worked in his first film, arranged a meeting with Dattani in Bangalore.[9] Rooks subsequently bought the rights to the play and went on co-write the screenplay with him. Her next venture, Dance Like a Man, was released in 2005.[10][11] and won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English for 2003. Accident and deathIn November 2005, she received a serious brain injury when a Maruti Alto lost control and collided with her Toyota Landcruiser at Vasant Kunj in Delhi while she was returning from Indira Gandhi International Airport after a trip to Amsterdam. She was subsequently put in a drug-induced coma and remained in that state for five years.[12][13] She never recovered from the coma and died of cardiac arrest at her Defense Colony home in the early hours of 1 October 2010 at the age of 52.[14] Personal lifeShe was married to director Conrad Rooks and the couple had a son, Ryan, before they divorced in 1985. Later she dated Maharajkumar Shrimant Shivaji Rao Holkar of Indore (Prince Richard Holkar), the son of HH Maharaja Yeshwant Rao II Holkar of Indore,[15] whom she had first met in 1998 in her Defense Colony neighbourhood. In the following years they grew close and decided to be life companions.[16][17][18] Together Pamela and Richard brought life back to Richard's ancestral home, Ahilya Fort in Maheshwar, and were the directors of Ahilya Hospitality and Travels Private Limited.[19] Holkar was accompanying her during the 2005 car accident. Richard Holkar joined the Indian Head Injury Foundation, founded in February 2007, by Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur, whose son Shivraj Singh had received a serious head injury due to an accident on the polo grounds in Jaipur in February 2005.[20][21] Filmography
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References1. ^India today, Volume 24. Thomson Living Media India Ltd., 1999. p. 38 2. ^The drama of Barry John's life Divya Vasisht, The Times of India, 23 November 2002. 3. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20101003/804/tnl-after-5-years-in-coma-pamela-rooks-d_2.html|title=After 5 years in coma, Pamela Rooks dies|date=3 October 2010|publisher=Yahoo! News|accessdate=4 October 2010}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 4. ^1 Pamela Rooks chaosmag. 5. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2004/10/08/stories/2004100801750100.htm|title=Prompted by predicament|date=8 October 2004|work=The Hindu}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19970725/20650843.html|title=Fifty summers after|date=25 July 1997|work=Indian Express}} 7. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19990110/01050445.html|title=No malice towards Rooks: Khushwant|date=10 January 1999|work=Indian Express}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?204930|title=Pamela Rooks|date=19 January 1998|publisher=Outlook}} 9. ^{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bangalore-times/all-set-to-shoot-dance-like-a-man/articleshow/31102210.cms|title=All set to shoot Dance Like a Man|date=13 December 2002|work=The Times of India}} 10. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/10/02/stories/2004100200500300.htm|title=From stage to screen|date=2 October 2004|work=The Hindu}} 11. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004100102160300.htm&date=2004/10/01/&prd=fr&|title=Dance Like A Man|date=1 October 2004|work=The Hindu}} 12. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051128/asp/nation/story_5529871.asp|title=Rooks hurt in car crash|date=28 November 2005|work=The Telegraph}} 13. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/11/28/stories/2005112816041500.htm|title=Pamela Rooks in hospital|date=28 November 2005|work=The Hindu}} 14. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/After-5-years-in-coma--Pamela-Rooks-dies/691709|title=After 5 years in coma, Pamela Rooks dies|date=3 October 2010|work=Indian Express}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.royalark.net/India/indore5.htm|title=Indore: The Holkar Dynasty genealogy}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/glitterati.aspx?414|title=Imperial Ties|date=20 October 2003|publisher=Outlook}} 17. ^{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/Raj-beyond/articleshow/9557217.cms|title=Raj & beyond|date=12 May 2002|work=The Times of India}} 18. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040307/herworld.htm#1|title=Love is not elsewhere|date=7 March 2004|work=The Tribune}} 19. ^{{cite news|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=159091|title=Rooks stable, cops say car skid as rear tyre came off|date=28 November 2005|work=Indian Express}} 20. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.indianheadinjuryfoundation.org/history.html|title=HIstory|publisher=Indian Head Injury Foundation website|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726174414/http://www.indianheadinjuryfoundation.org/history.html|archivedate=26 July 2011|df=dmy-all}} 21. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/2-accidents-bring-2-maharajas-to-a-cause-close-to-their-heart/24209/|title=2 accidents bring 2 Maharajas to a cause close to their heart|date=25 February 2007|work=Indian Express}} 22. ^{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/40th_nff_1993.pdf|title=40th National Film Awards|format=PDF|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|accessdate=2 March 2012}} 23. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740274/awards|title=Awards|publisher=IMDB}}
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