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Sai Paranjape: Daughter of Sahkauntala Paranjpe, well known actress of yesteryears, Sai was raised in the house of her Maternal Grandfather  , Sir R. P. Paranjpe, who was a renowned mathematician and an educationist.  As a child, she used to walk up to her uncle, Achyut Ranade, a noted filmmaker of the ’40s and ’50s, up Fergusson Hill in Pune, who would tell stories as if he were narrating a screenplay. Sai took to writing early in her life, and her first book of fairy tales, Mulancha Mewa’  (in Marathi) was published when she was just 8 years old. Over the years, Sai has written and directed plays in Marathi, Hindi, and English, both for adults and children. She has written and directed so far six feature films, two children’s films, and five documentaries. She has also written many books for children, and six of her books have won national or state level awards. Presently her two plays ‘Sakkhe Shejari’ and ‘Jaswandi’ are receiving good response.

Sai Paranjape:
Daughter of Sahkauntala Paranjpe, well known actress of yesteryears, Sai was raised in the house of her Maternal Grandfather  , Sir R. P. Paranjpe, who was a renowned mathematician and an educationist.  As a child, she used to walk up to her uncle, Achyut Ranade, a noted filmmaker of the ’40s and ’50s, up Fergusson Hill in Pune, who would tell stories as if he were narrating a screenplay. Sai took to writing early in her life, and her first book of fairy tales, Mulancha Mewa’  (in Marathi) was published when she was just 8 years old.

Over the years, Sai has written and directed plays in Marathi, Hindi, and English, both for adults and children. She has written and directed so far six feature films, two children’s films, and five documentaries. She has also written many books for children, and six of her books have won national or state level awards. Presently her two plays ‘Sakkhe Shejari’ and ‘Jaswandi’ are receiving good response.