Women in Film Editing

Editing was once considered a male bastion. Today women have become some of the finest editors in Hindi film industry. The late Renu Saluja was an editor par excellence. Namrata Rao has edited Oye Lucky ! Lucky Oye ! , Love Sex and Dhokha, Ishqiya, and Band Baaja Baraat.According to Namrata, editors are like mothers who nurture and shape a film. A good editor has to understand the director’s ambition and vision. Aarti Bajaj edited Rockstar.She has worked on films like Black Friday, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., Jab We Met. She is a former wife of Anurag Kashyap. An editor has to get uner the skin of the characters. Only then the editor can find his/her space in each scene without unnecessarily cutting it.Deepa Bhatia edited Hazar Chaurasi Ki Ma, Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara.Hemanti Sarkar learnt editing at FTII. She edited Peepli Live which had more the 30-hours of footage.

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