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Guneet Monga is an Indian movie producer identified for producing brief documentary movies and Bollywood movies. She is the co-founder of Sikha Leisure (a boutique movie manufacturing home) and Indian Rising Girls (a cinema collective).

Wiki/Biography

Guneet Monga was born on Monday, 21 November 1983 (age 39 years; as of 2022). She accomplished her education at Bluebells College Worldwide, New Delhi. She obtained a bachelor’s diploma in Mass Communication from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha College, Delhi. She shifted to Mumbai in 2006.

Bodily Look

Peak (approx.): 5′ 4″

Weight (approx.): 55 kg

Hair Color: Medium Ash Brown

Eye Color: Black

Household

She belongs to a Sikh household.

Dad and mom & Siblings

She is the one youngster of her dad and mom.

Husband

Guneet Monga obtained married to the entrepreneur Sunny Kapoor on 12 December 2022.

Marriage {photograph} of Guneet Monga

Profession

Guneet Monga started her profession with an internship in 2004, as an intern of a manufacturing coordinator for the French-German movie “Valley of Flowers.” She joined Sepia Leisure in 2006 and labored as a full-time manufacturing coordinator for the English-language movie “Partition” (2007), which was nominated for the Genie Award for Greatest Achievement in Cinematography in 2008. She additionally labored on the movie “Say Salaam India” (2007).

Poster of the movie ‘Say Salaam India’

Monga established her personal manufacturing home, Sikhya Leisure in April 2008, in partnership with the producer, Achin Jain, and produced in style movies like ‘That Woman in Yellow Boots’ (2011), ‘The Lunchbox’ (2013), ‘Peddlers’ (2013), ‘Masaan’ (2015), ‘Haraamkhor’ (2015), ‘Pagglait’ (2021), and ‘Kathal’ (2023).

Poster of the movie ‘The Lunchbox’

She joined Balaji Movement Footage Pvt Ltd in 2008 and labored there for one 12 months as a Supervising Producer. She met Anurag Kashyap in 2009 whereas engaged on the movie “As soon as Upon a Time in Mumbaai” (2010) and later joined the Anurag Kashyap Movies Pvt. Ltd. (AKFPL) as CEO. She labored there on the blockbuster movie collection “Gangs of Wasseypur.”

Poster of the movie ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’

Another movies she labored on whereas working at AKFPL embrace Trishna (2011), Shaitan (2011), Michael (2011), and Aiyya (2012).

Awards, Honours, Achievements

• Guneet Monga was voted as one of many high 12 achievers within the World Leisure trade by the Hollywood Reporter.

• India At this time enlisted her among the many high 50 Indians altering India.

• In March 2018, she was chosen by the American movie journal, ‘Selection,’ as considered one of fifty girls from the leisure trade who’s doing ‘extraordinary issues on the worldwide stage.’

• In 2009, her worldwide brief movie “Kavi” (2009) which was based mostly on bonded labour in India, received the ‘Scholar Academy Award – Narrative’ and was additionally nominated for the 2010 Academy Award for Greatest Stay-Motion Quick Movie.

• In July 2014, Mid-Day enlisted her within the ’35 Achievers Beneath 35′ listing.

• Guneet Monga together with Ritesh Batra, Arun Rangachari, and Anurag Kashyap was nominated for the BAFTA award for the movie “The Lunchbox” for Greatest Movie Not within the English Language in 2015.

• Together with Deepika Padukone, Monga was the one girl featured in Selection’s ‘Worldwide Girls’s Affect Report 2018.’

• GQ Journal honoured her as “Producer of The 12 months” in January 2019.

• In October 2019, she was honoured as ‘Most Highly effective Girls in Indian Enterprise’ by Enterprise At this time, and ‘India’s Most Highly effective Businesswomen’ by World Financial Discussion board.

• In December 2019, The New Indian Specific enlisted her within the ‘5 Indian Entertainers In The World Highlight.’

• Guneet Monga received the Academy Award for Greatest Documentary Quick Topic for her brief movie “Interval. Finish of Sentence” on the 91st Academy Award in 2019.

• In April 2021, Guneet Monga was honoured with the second highest civilian French honour, ‘Chevalier dans I’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters), by French Overseas Minister, Jean-Yues Le Drian in Delhi.

Details/Trivia

• Her movie “The Lunchbox” (2013), which was a co-production between India, France, Germany, and the USA, and her movie “Monsoon Shootout” (2013), which was a co-production between India, the Netherlands, and the UK, had been chosen for Worldwide Critics’ Week. Each movies had been additionally chosen for a midnight screening on the ‘Cannes Movie Pageant 2013.’

• Guneet Monga is among the many first producers from India who was inducted into the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences.

• The producer has been a sufferer of age and gender discrimination within the preliminary days of her profession. In an interview, she revealed that she used to dye her hair gray and put on saris to conferences to look older as she believed that she received’t be accepted as a movie producer at a younger age. She believed that individuals typically count on movie producers to be older males. Whereas speaking about this in an interview, she stated,
  

  In any other case, how would a twenty-six-year-old be taken severely? I simply needed to faux it—that I do know my shit.’

• In 2022, her brief documentary movie “The Elephant Whisperers” was shortlisted on the ninety fifth Academy Awards for Greatest Documentary Quick Movie. Whereas expressing her honour in an interview, she stated,
  

  It’s an honor to be within the esteemed firm of such numerous tasks within the high 15 shortlisted movies on the upcoming Oscars 2023.”

• Monga labored as a DJ, an insurance coverage agent, a gross sales agent for Laughing Cow cheese, an occasion planner, a rally automotive driver, and a property saleswoman earlier than coming into the movie trade.