Maithili Rao

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Maithali Rao
Born1943
Secunderabad, Hyderabad State, India
Occupation
  • Author
  • Journalist
  • Film Critic
  • Lecturer
  • Subtitlist
LanguageEnglish, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu
NationalityIndian
Spouse
Shyam Rao
(m. 1967)
Children
  • Shamita Dewan

Maithili Rao is an Indian freelance film critic, writer, journalist and former English lecturer based in Mumbai. [1] [2] [3] She has worked for several publications, including The Hindu , Frontline , Film Comment , the Sunday Observer , Gentleman , The Independent , and Screen .[ citation needed ]

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Career

Rao worked as a journalist for The Hindu , Frontline , Film Comment , Gentleman , Man's World , Cinema in India, and South Asian Cinema; the latter two were published by the National Film Development Corporation of India and South Asian Cinema Foundation, which was based in London. [4] [5] She wrote the column "Image of Women" in the newspaper Eye's Weekly for ten years. She is also a film critic for the Sunday Observer , The Independent , Screen , The Free Press Journal , Bombay, and Zee Premiere. [4] [6] In 2003, she contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema, an encyclopaedia book about Hindi cinema that was published by Popular Prakashan. [4]

Rao served as a jury at The Golden Elephant (also known as International Children's Film Festival India) and the Mumbai International Film Festival. [5] She has authored one books, titled Smita Patil: A Brief Incandescence, a biographical book on the Indian actress Smita Patil published by HarperCollins. According to the Indo-Asian News Service, "The book is not only a long-pending due to this accomplished but instinctive actress but also an invaluable distillation of some of the best of Indian cinema, which could easily rise above mindless escapism to sensitively portray society and its inequities and injustices—especially towards women, whose plight Smita can so touchingly render." [7] The Times of India listed it amongst the "top 25 good reads" of 2015. [8]

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