安诺帕马·乔普拉

阿努帕玛·乔普拉（英语：Anupama Chopra），印度女作家、记者及影评人，曾于2015年至2023年担任MAMI孟买影展的影展总监。她是电影网站Film Companion（电影伴侣）的创办人兼编辑。乔普拉撰写了多本有关印度电影的书籍，并担任NDTV、《今日印度》及《印度斯坦时报》的影评人。她也在星空国际印度频道主持每周一次的电影评论节目《与阿努帕玛·乔普拉面谈》（The Front Row With Anupama Chopra）。2024年，《好莱坞报道》印度分部成立，乔普拉加入了该分部，并一直担任编辑至 2026年。

乔普拉以第一本书《怒焰骄阳的经典幕后制作》获颁2000年印度国家电影奖的最佳电影书籍奖。

私生活

她的丈夫是印地语电影制片人兼导演威杜·维诺德·乔普拉。女儿祖尼是小说家兼诗集作家，儿子阿格尼是板球运动员。

电影伴侣

2014年7月，乔普拉创办了电影伴侣（Film Companion）网站，旨在打造面向全印度的娱乐新闻平台。该平台提供电影、电视和网络剧的评论、采访、专题报导和大师班课程。乔普拉、拉胡尔·德赛（Rahul Desai）、苏查莉塔·蒂雅吉和普拉塔尤什·帕拉苏拉曼（Pratayush Parasuraman）都曾为该平台撰稿。巴拉德瓦杰·兰甘也曾为该平台撰稿多年，直至2022年3月15日离职。2024年7月，乔普拉宣布加入《好莱坞报道印度》，电影伴侣网站也就此关闭。

Anupama Vinod Chopra (née Chandra) is an Indian author, journalist and film critic who served as the festival director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival from 2015 to 2023. She is also the founder and editor of the now-defunct digital platform Film Companion, which offered a curated look at cinema with an emphasis on Indian film. She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV and India Today, as well as the Hindustan Times. She hosted a weekly film review show, The Front Row With Anupama Chopra, on Star World. She won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema for her first book Sholay: The Making of a Classic. Chopra joined the Indian outlet of The Hollywood Reporter as it was launched in 2024, and remained it's editor until 2026.

Early life and background

Born as Anupama Chandra in Calcutta, India to Chandra Prasad family, she has also lived in Badayun, a city in Uttar Pradesh. Her father, Navin Chandra, was the eldest among his siblings. Anupama's grandfather, originally from Delhi, was an executive with Union Carbide in Kolkata. Her mother, Kamna Chandra, was a scriptwriter who wrote dialogue for such films as Prem Rog (1982) and Chandni (1989). Chopra grew up with her brother and sister in Mumbai, where her family lived in the Nepean Sea Road neighbourhood, and then in Cuffe Parade. Her sister, Tanuja Chandra, is an Indian film director and screenwriter; her brother, Vikram Chandra, is a novelist, who splits his time between California and India. She also lived in Hong Kong for several years as a teenager. She graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai with a BA in English Literature in 1987.

Later, Chopra earned her MA in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She won the Harrington Award for "academic excellence and promise for success in the field of magazine journalism" while at Medill. She later said, "Film journalism was untouchable at the time. Everybody was ashamed and nobody wanted to admit that I worked for movies."

Career

After her education, Chopra started her career as a film journalist and critic and over the years has written several books on films, especially Hindi cinema. She has written about the Hindi film industry since 1993 and has explored cinema in several mediums – print, television and digital. Her first book Sholay: The Making of a Classic (2000) won the 2001 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema (India).

Chopra's 2011 book First Day First Show: Writings from the Bollywood Trenches, is a compilation of her articles on Hindi cinema over two decades, published by Penguin India.

Chopra hosted a film review show, Picture This, on NDTV 24X7 news channel. In 2012, she started her weekly review show called The Front Row with Anupama Chopra, on Star World, which ran until June 2014. In 2013, she released two books, Freeze Frame, based on the interviews with film makers and actors on the TV show, and 100 Films to See before You Die based on her weekly film columns. In 2014, she also hosted a Hindi show called Star Verdict on Star Plus.

In November 2014, Chopra replaced Srinivasan Narayanan to become the festival director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI). She remained in this role until June 2024, when she stepped down and was replaced by interim festival director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.

In December 2025, while working with The Hollywood Reporter India, she posted a review of the spy thriller Dhurandhar, which was met with social media trolling and widespread backlash. This resulted in the video being made private.