Aarti Bajaj

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Aarti Bajaj
Born (1973-02-10) 10 February 1973 (age 52)
Delhi, India
Occupation Film editor
Years active1995–present
Spouse
(m. 1997;div. 2009)

Aarti Bajaj (born 10 February 1973) is an Indian film editor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema. She has won several awards for her work. She has edited critically acclaimed movies such as Jab We Met , Black Friday and others. Aarti Bajaj is known for her ability to bring out the emotional depth of the characters and the story through her editing. [1]

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Career

Aarti Bajaj began editing with Anurag Kashyap's unreleased film Paanch . She followed it with his controversial and acclaimed film Black Friday for which she was nominated for a Star Screen Award in 2008. [2] She has also edited Reema Kagti's Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. , Imtiaz Ali's Jab We Met, Rockstar, Tamasha, Highway and Rajkumar Gupta's Aamir , for which she was nominated for her second Star Screen Award. [3] Later, she edited Kashyap's Dev.D , Gulaal , Ugly , Raman Raghav 2.0 , Mukkabaaz, Sacred Games and Manmarziyaan. An article on The Hindu describes her as "one of those rare new-age film editors who lets the narrative breathe, supremely confident of her pacing."

In the same article, Bajaj describes her process of deciding which film she wants to contribute to. It is true that many of her works are films which are different from what one expects from the average Bollywood movie. She answers in The Hindu interview, "I enjoy mainstream Bollywood, but I don't know if I can edit them. What's the point of doing the same formula again? What do you look forward to? I know I will go brain-dead." She also adds, "I like quirky, I like different." She goes on to emphasise the importance of mental stimulation and how every project she does must present to her some sort of challenge. Her professionalism is such that she only does one project at a time to ensure compete focus.

Bajaj has worked on films across different genres, from Rockstar to Sacred Games, which demand different editing styles, and has proved herself to be a versatile editor. [4]

Filmography

YearFilmNotes and Ref.
1999 Last Train to Mahakali Short film
2003 Paanch Unreleased
2007 Salaam-e-Ishq
Black Friday
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
No Smoking
Jab We Met
2008 Aamir
Maharathi
2009 Dev.D
Gulaal
Love Aaj Kal
2010 Karthik Calling Karthik
Mumbai Cutting Segment: "Pramod Bhai 23"
Do Dooni Chaar
2011 No One Killed Jessica
Rockstar
2012 Paan Singh Tomar Nominated—Screen Award for Best Editing
Ishaqzaade
2013 Ugly Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Editing
Ghanchakkar
2014 Highway Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Editing
Revolver Rani
2015 Tamasha Won—FOI Online Award for Best Editing
2016 Love Shagun
Raman Raghav 2.0
2017 Jab Harry Met Sejal
Mukkabaaz
2018 Cake Pakistani film
Manmarziyaan
2019 Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?
2020 Love Aaj Kal Released on Netflix
2021 Shaadisthan Released on Disney+ Hotstar
2022 Thar Released on Netflix
Dobaaraa
2024 Amar Singh Chamkila Released on Netflix

Television

YearTitleNotes and Ref.
2018–2019 Sacred Games Won—Asian Academy Creative Award for Best Editing
2023 Jubilee Released on Amazon Prime Video
Choona Released on Netflix

References

  1. "The Saturday Interview — The finishing touch". The Hindu. 30 December 2011. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  2. "14th Annual Star Screen Awards nominations". Screen. Archived from the original on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  3. "15th Annual Star Screen Awards nominations". Bollywood Hungama . Archived from the original on 27 February 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  4. "Aarti Bajaj; an editor who chases the art of deconstruction and reconstruction". The Compass. 31 October 2018. Archived from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.