Filmmaker Guneet Monga has mentioned that her first journey to the Oscars occurred as a result of former president Pratibha Patel helped her when her brief movie, Kavi, bagged an Oscar nomination in 2010. She was talking at The Kapil Sharma Show the place she made an look alongside Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon and author-philanthropist Sudha Murty. Guneet bagged the Oscar earlier this yr for her manufacturing – The Elephant Whisperers – the documentary brief directed by Kartiki Gonsalves. (Also learn: Guneet Monga revisits college with Shaunak Sen: Two alumni made it to the Oscars)
Asked concerning the letter she wrote to the previous president, Guneet mentioned she left Delhi after her dad and mom’ demise and got here to Mumbai to make movies. “I had no money and I used to live in PG. I wanted a visa and funds so I used to write emails to all the influential people. I used to send emails to people like Richard Branson, Ratan Tata, Airline companies and so on. So once I wrote a mail to honorable Mrs. Pratibha Patil and I got a reply from her. The assistant called and asking what I wanted to do so I said, ‘I am the pride of India, I wanted to take it to Oscars. I would love to show you the film with my cast and crew’. I could not have asked for funds and tickets. She obliged us to hold a screening at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.”
She added, “I went there with the entire solid and crew of Kavi, Pratibhaji couldn’t see the movie as she was busy with the price range. But Prithviraj Chauhan ji was there and he heard me out and helped me with the visas, tickets, keep, and all the pieces. When we reached the US, the very first thing I did was I went to an Indian restaurant in Beverly Hills and spoke to an Indian woman about my movie being nominated within the Oscars, which helped us get our journey in place.”
Guneet additionally talked about how she discovered to take no, and nonetheless go on. “At the age of 18, my father wanted me to become an insurance agent. His idea was that his friends would buy insurance from me, and that would fix a certain income for me, each time they renew their insurance. For that, I did a course where we learned that many people will say no but we have to keep going.”
Apart from Kavi, and The Elephant Whisperers, Guneet was additionally an govt producer on the Oscar-award-winning 2019 movie Period. End of Sentence.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com