2000s. She also wrote the segment "India" (directed by Nair) in 11'09"01 September 11, a series of short films for Canal Plus in 2002. Dhawan's short film (Saanjh) As Night Falls was awarded the Best of the Festival at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. It also received the Audience Award at Angelus Awards; and was voted "Most Original Film," by New Line Cinema at the Polo Ralph Lauren New Works Festival in 2000. In 2009, Dhawan acted as co-producer for the first three episodes of a TV Series titled Bollywood Hero. Since her short film in 2000, Dhawan has written for 9 other projects (feature films, documentaries, TV series) leading up to today. In 2016, Dhawan co-wrote the film Rangoon, with Vishal Bharadwaj and Matthew Robbins. Dhawan worked with Mira Nair to create a stage adaptation of Monsoon Wedding which ran at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California in 2017. Filmography Awards and nominations References External links https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486531/awards?ref_=tt_awd 1969 births Living people Indian women screenwriters Tisch School of the Arts faculty English emigrants to India Writers from London 20th-century English writers 20th-century Indian women writers 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights Women writers from Delhi Hindi screenwriters Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Screenwriters from Delhi