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Sooni Taraporevala is an Indian screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker. She is known for the screenplays of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, and the Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, all directed by Mira Nair. She also adapted Rohinton Mistry's novel Such A Long Journey (1998). She wrote the films Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, her directorial debut Little Zizou (2008), and Yeh Ballet (2020), a Netflix original film that she also directed.