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Bhavani Iyer

Indian writer

Summary

Indian writer

Field	Value
name	Bhavani Iyer
image	File photograph.jpg
occupation	screenwriter, novelist

Bhavani Iyer is an Indian screenwriter and novelist from Mumbai.

Career

Bhavani Iyer started her career with advertising as a trainee copywriter. She then moved to journalism and had worked as the editor for the film magazine *Stardust. *She made her screenwriting debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black. She has collaborated on the screenplays for Bhansali's Guzaarish, Vikramaditya Motwane's Lootera and the Indian version of Fox's hit show 24 (Indian TV series). She has also written the critically acclaimed Raazi, a spy drama that has been lauded for its sensitive depiction of cross-border espionage set during the India-Pakistan war of 1971.

Her first novel, Anon, was well received by critics and readers alike.

Filmography

Movies

Black (2005)
Main Aisa Hi Hoon (2005)
Swami (2007)
Guzaarish (2010)
Lootera (2013)
One Night Stand (2016)
Raazi (2018)
Sam Bahadur (2022)

TV shows

24 (Indian TV series) (2013–16)
Everest (Indian TV series) (2014)
Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai (2016)
Kaafir (2019)
Breathe: Into the Shadows (2020)
The Empire (2021)

Books

Anon (Fingerprint Publishing) Anon. by Bhavani Iyer

References

(29 November 2020). "Bhavani Iyer: Feminist writer who remains ‘utterly unafraid’". The Indian Express.
(29 April 2006). "Scripting a new success". [[The Daily Telegraph.
"27-Year-Old Bhavani Iyer Becomes A Bollywood Celebrity Writer". SAWF News.
(7 November 2007). "Milind Soman in Black writer's next". [[Rediff]].
(11 September 2006). "A Frame Of Her Own". [[Outlook (Indian magazine).
"Fact and Fiction". woman.intoday.

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