Leena Yadav

Leena Yadav (born 6 January 1971) is an Indian born filmmaker – Director, Editor, Producer, and Screenwriter. Her first international feature film is Parched which premiers at Toronto International Film Festival,2015. .[1][2]

Early life and education

Born to an Indian Army General in Madhya Pradesh, she graduated with Economics honours from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi. She did Mass Communications from Sophia College, Mumbai.[2][3][4]

Personal life

She is married to Aseem Bajaj, an Indian Cinematographer well known for his poetic imagery on films like Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi, Shabd, Teen Patti, U Me Aur Hum and Chameli to name a few. She met Aseem while directing her first TV show This Week That Year.[3]

Filmography

Having captivated by the job of Film editing, while she was working with diploma in Mass Communications background, she learnt Film editing. Without working as an assistant to anyone, she learnt about direction and script writing from editing itself. While working as an editor for 'ad films'- corporate shows – and television serials, she got an offer to direct Television (TV) show This Week That Year for Star Movies. With success, she floated her own production house with Nikhil Kapoor to produce and direct shows for Star Bestsellers.[1][2][3][5]

As a TV shows director, she directed both fiction and non-fiction for almost 12 years; some of the TV shows, she directed were like singular episodes for Star Bestsellers, Say Na Something to Anupam Uncle, Sanjeevani, and many more.[1]

As a main-stream film director, Shabd was her directorial debut with unconventional storyline released in 2005. Teen Patti was her second film after a gap of five years.[6] Parched is the next movie directed by her starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla and Adil Hussain playing lead roles.[7]

As director

For films

For TV shows

As writer

As editor

As producer

Music

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Playing Teen Patti with Leena Yadav". starboxoffice.com. Retrieved 17 March 2012. Editing intrigued, so I learnt it. I have never assisted anybody, so I have learnt everything about direction and writing from editing. While I was editing, I got the offer to direct something for television, post which I directed fiction and non-fiction shows on TV for 12 years
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Indiantelevision.com's Interview with TV director Leena Yadav". indiantelevision.com. 20 August 2002. Retrieved 18 April 2012. The lady who started her career in television as an editor and graduated to direction with the Star Movies' show This Week That Year has come a long way. After the Nikhil Kapoor anchored show, Yadav floated her own production house with Kapoor and produced one-off stories for Star Bestellers, which she also directed.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Meet the woman behind Shabd". rediff.com. 1 February 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2012. Born in Madhya Pradesh [ Images ], Leena was brought up 'all over India [ Images ],' thanks to her armyman father – I met my husband through work. My first directorial venture was This Week That Year, which was also Aseem's first show. After that, we got married. line feed character in |quote= at position 231 (help)
  4. 1 2 "Leena Yadav – Director, editor, and writer". imdb.com. Retrieved 17 April 2012. Born: January 6, 1971 in India
  5. 1 2 "Leena Yadav – Film director". scmsophia.com. 13 January 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012. Leena Yadav conducts workshops on cinema. She is an experienced television and film professional, and has worked on ad films, corporate videos and television shows. She has directed television shows such as This Week That Year, Sanjeevani, Kahi na Kahi Koi Hai, Goonj and Khauf.
  6. ↑ "No film without Big B says Leena Yadav". articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 23 January 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2012. Leena Yadav's directorial debut Shabd had an unconventional storyline and an even more unexpected cast – Sanjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Zayed Khan. With her second directorial venture, she's made even more interesting permutations and combinations in her casting.
  7. ↑ "Oscar Winner Russell Carpenter to Lens U.S.-India Co-Production 'Parched' (Exclusive)". Holllywood Reporter. 11 February 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2015.

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