for the Government of India and the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC). In 2016 she directed a 14-minute documentary virtual reality film Yeh Ballet for Anand Gandhi's Memesys Culture Lab. In 2020 she wrote and directed a feature film based on her documentary. The Netflix Original film Yeh Ballet produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur and Roy Kapur Films can be seen on Netflix worldwide. Photography In 1982, during a break from college, she met photographer Raghubir Singh, who, after looking at her work, which included photographs of her extended Parsi family, suggested she work on a book about the Parsi community. This started her extensive work of photo documentation of the Parsi community. In 2000, she self-published Parsis, the Zoroastrians of India: a photographic journey, 1980-2000 about the traditionally closed off community since their persecution in Persia, the first and only visual documentation of the Parsi community. An updated edition was published in 2004. Her photographs have been exhibited in India, the US, France and Britain, including London's Tate Modern gallery. She has had solo shows at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai and the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi. Her work is in the permanent collections of the NGMA Delhi and the MET New York. In 2017/2018, the Whitworth in Manchester exhibited her photographic show Home in the City, Bombay 1977 Mumbai 2017. It was selected by The Guardian as one of UK's top 5 shows. A larger version of Home in the City with 102 photographs was exhibited at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, from 14 through 31 October 2017. An accompanying book, Home in the city: Bombay 1977 Mumbai 2017, was released with essays by Pico Iyer and Salman Rushdie. It then traveled to the Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts in Altinho, Goa, opening there on 11 November 2017. Filmography Awards 1988: Lillian Gish award for Excellence in Film from Women in Film, for the screenplay of Salaam Bombay! 1991: Golden Osella (Best Original Screenplay) Venice Film Festival: Mississippi Masala 2008: Time/Warner Best Screenplay Award at Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council, New York, for Little Zizou 2008: Best Director at Mahindra Indo- American Arts Council, New York, for Little Zizou 2008: Best Producer at Asian Festival of 1ST Films, Singapore, for Little Zizou 2009 : Best Director of Experience Section of Levante International Film