Renu Saluja

Renu Saluja

Birth : 1952-07-05, Delhi, India

Death : 2000-08-16

History

Renu Saluja (5 July 1952 – 16 August 2000) was an Indian film editor. In the 1980s and 1990s, she worked with both mainstream and art house Hindi cinema directors, including Govind Nihalani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Sudhir Mishra, Shekhar Kapoor, and Mahesh Bhatt, Vijay Singh. Her work encompassed multiple feature films, documentaries, short films, and television series.

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Renu Saluja

Movies

Mission Kashmir
Supervising Editor
A police officer adopts the son and sole survivor of a family he has massacred while pursuing a terrorist. After some time the foster son finds out what the stepfather did.
Hey Ram
Editor
Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.
Jaya Ganga
Editor
French-India Drama-Romance
Hyderabad Blues
Editor
Varun returns homes after twelve years in the United States and attempts to romance an Indian doctor.
Kareeb
Editor
Birju is a young man who lives with his mom, dad, sister, and a younger brother in an upper middle class home. His father would like him to work as well as accept some responsibility, but Birju does not heed him, but is instead interested in petty thievery, lies, and romancing a beautiful young woman named Neha. When he proposes marriage, his mom and dad hope that this will set him on the right path, and they approve of his marriage with Neha. When Neha finds out the truth about Birju, she refuses to marry him, and re-locates to another town. Birju is unable to get Neha out of his mind, and he runs away from home, hoping to locate Neha somewhere, and try to patch things with her. He does find Neha and her mom, who is hospitalized. When Birju makes inquiries he is told that Neha's mom is due for major surgery, and that this operation will cost a lot of money. Birju steals the money to pay for the surgery...
Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai
Editor
A playboy falls in love with a girl who rejects him because of his vices, but she gives him time to change. After changing his lifestyle, a little boy shows up claiming to be his son.
Do Rahain / Mil Gayi Manzil Mujhe
Editor
Directed by Lekh Tandon in 1997. While pursuing a story on a tribal uprising and its mysterious leader, a fearless television journalist and her cameraman travel to the tribal heartland for an interview and, on the way, fall in love.
Pardes
Editor
Kishorilal wants an Indian bride for his westernised son. He gets him engaged to Ganga, his friend's daughter, and brings her to USA. But she shares a deeper bond with Arjun, Kishorilal's foster son.
Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin
Editor
An advertising executive, Aditya (Nirmal Pandey) has a beautiful wife (Tara Deshpande) and a beautiful mistress (Smriti Mishra). This secret affair is the catalyst for much of the plot. Adi gets into a scuffle with a bunch of gangsters led by Ramanbhai, (Ashish Vidyarthi)
Papa Kahte Hain
Editor
Sweety lives with her mom, maternal grandpa, and grandma. All she knows is that she is not permitted to talk about her father at home
Tarpan
Editor
The film set in the 1940s, in a fictitious village in the Shekhavati region in Rajasthan, where no girl child survives beyond the age of seven. It deals with larger issues of communalism and caste system through four inter-related stories.
Bandit Queen
Editor
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.
Purush
Editor
A woman (Ashwini Bhave) fighting a powerful politician (Om Puri) who has raped her.
1942: A Love Story
Editor
The son of a politician loyal to the British rule falls in love with the daughter of a freedom fighter.
Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa
Editor
A man belongs to a middle-class family and is intent on pursuing his career with a music group, despite his dad's disapproval. He is also in love with the lead singer, but she sees him mainly as a friend.
Maya Memsaab
Editor
A frustrated housewife whose marriage to an average man does not meet her expectations enters into an affair with a younger man. Of course, there are no easy escapes from reality.
Sardar
Editor
Sardar is a 1993 Indian biopic on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of India's greatest freedom fighters, directed by Ketan Mehta and written by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar.
Let's Be Friends
Editor
Mujhse Dosti Karoge is an award winning Hindi film, starring Irrfan Khan. Gul Hasan, a nine year-old boy living in the desert of Rann of Kutch, aspires for a better fife. His dreams and aspirations take him on a journey that blurs the line between fantasy and reality. The film has won several national and international awards.
Miss Beatty's Children
Editor
An idealistic English school teacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a strong-willed missionary, devoted to saving young girls from being sold into temple prostitution.
Dharavi
Editor
Dharavi - known as the biggest slums on Earth, has many people living in abject poverty and destitute conditions. One such person is Rajkaran a taxi driver by profession, who has bought a taxi and is still for it in small installments. He, his wife, Kumud, and his son live in small tenement. Electricity and water are not available legally, but can be obtained illegally by paying middlemen, who in turn bribe the police and the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials. Rajkaran's dream is to own his taxi, and start his own business - of dyeing clothes.
Parinda
Editor
Brothers Kishen and Karan live in Bombay, where Karan falls in love with Paro. But Karan then leaves India to attend school in America. Kishen, meanwhile, enters into a life of crime, falling under the sway of Anna, a drug dealer. When Karan decides to return to India to pursue a relationship with Paro, Kishen tries to keep him as far away from his criminal life as possible, but his plans go tragically awry.
Main Zinda Hoon
Editor
Beena, a villager married to a man in the city, is shocked to find that her husband has left the house. She begins to provide for the family, but faces issues when she falls in love with a co-worker.
Pestonjee
Editor
Phirojshah (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pestonjee (Anupam Kher) are two close friends. They attempt to do everything together, and they hope that they will marry the same day as well. Unfortunately, both go to see the same young lady, Jeroo (Shabana Azmi), and Pestonjee ends up getting married to Jeroo. Phirojshah has been stricken by Jeroo's beauty and decides not to marry, and takes a transfer away from the couple. During the years, he keeps in touch with the couple by mail. While on a visit to the couple, he finds out that Pestonjee has a mistress, and Jeroo does not know of this. How will this effect Phirojshah's friendship with Pestonjee? Does Phirojshah stand a chance with Jeroo?
This Is Not Our Destination
Editor
1987 Hindi drama film written and directed by Sudhir Mishra, in a directorial debut. It starred Manohar Singh, Habib Tanvir, B. M. Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Sushmita Mukherjee and Naseeruddin Shah in lead roles
New Delhi Times
Editor
When a politician is killed, a journalist discovers that a member of parliament had the man assassinated. As his editor digs deeper, the complicity of higher-placed politicians comes to the surface, which leads to riots in one town and an attempt to suppress his story.
Janam
Editor
A young man decides to be a film director against the wishes of his family. Even after witnessing his father's downfall in the film industry, he doesn't give up on his dream. His love interest further separates him from the family. Without losing hope, he goes on to direct his autobiographical film 'Aathmakatha'. Will the success of the film reunite him with his lost soul and family?
Party
Editor
A party is held in honor of the recipient of a literary prize, which attracts the cultural elite of the town. Missing is Amrit, a writer who left a promising literary career to become an activist among the tribals. His attempt to bridge the chasm between words and deed haunts those at the party. Based on a Marathi play by Mahesh Elkunchwa.
Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!
Editor
An old couple, Mohan Joshi and his wife, sues their landlord for not maintaining their 'collapsing' apartment building. For this, they hire two cunning lawyers. The court case drags on for years and the lawyers milk the old couple dry, while they become rich. Back home in the society, the old couple is ridiculed for fighting the landlord, but they fight on nevertheless.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Editor
Two zanies open a photography studio. They score a partnership with a gossip magazine that suddenly thrusts them into a world of corruption, murder, and hijinks.
Aadharshila
Editor
Aadharshila portrays the struggles of young people - especially graduates of the Film and Television Institute of India - to find a foothold in the Indian film industry. The film ends with the completion of the film-within-a-film.
Death Penalty
Editor
The film was based on Vinod Chopra's diploma film at FTII, Murder at Monkey Hill (1976). He adapted that into a full-length feature, with Naseeruddin Shah and Radha Saluja, respectively, playing the roles that he, himself, and Anjali Paigankar had played in the short film.
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai
Editor
'Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Ata Hai' revolves around the Pintos and the people connected to them. There's Albert who's pretty much angry at everybody. His brother Dominic who thinks it's better to be jobless than to work an underpaid job, his patient sister Joan who works at a sari shop, his independent girlfriend Stella who feels under-appreciated by her boyfriend, his father and his colleagues, client and Stella's family. The film is very much a social commentary about Middle-class life in Bombay during the late ’70s and the conflicts arising in the labour force because workers were getting severely underpaid.
Murder at Monkey Hill
Editor
The story deals with a professional hitman, who falls in love with the woman he sets out to murder.