Loveleen Tandan

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Loveleen Tandan ( is an Indian film director and casting director. She is known as the "co-director: India" of the four time Golden Globe, seven time BAFTA Award and eight Academy Award winning (including best picture) Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which she shared a New York Film Critics Online Award for Best Director with Danny Boyle. She was also a casting director for several other films, including the Golden Lion winning and Golden Globe nominated Monsoon Wedding (2001) and the BAFTA Award nominated Brick Lane (2007). She was also the casting consultant for the Gotham Award and Independent Spirit Award nominated film The Namesake (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Loveleen Tandan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Movies

Slumdog Millionaire

Director

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

Slumdog Millionaire

Co-Director

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

Slumdog Millionaire

Casting

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

The New World

Casting Consultant

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

Monsoon Wedding

Casting

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. This film traces five intersecting stories, each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class, continent and morality.

Shadows in the Dark

Young filmmaker Pankaj Butalia directs this sweeping film about ill-fated love set against the epic canvas of India's partition into Hindu Indian and Muslim Pakistan. The film opens with Lajma, a beautiful school teacher with greying hair, leaving Pakistan for her childhood home in India. There she discovers that the home is in ruin, her aging aunt is half senile, and her cousin Gautam is bitter and defeated. Flashback to 1947 when India splits in two -- the police force a proud old Muslim man, along with his grieving daughter-in-law, to take in a couple of impoverished Hindus, Chand and Bhagwati, into their large home. Later, Chand's mute sister Lajjo arrives with her young daughter Lajma in tow. Suffering from some unnamed past trauma, Lajjo is eventually shipped off to an asylum, leaving Lajma with her uncle. Later still, Lajma, Chand's son Gautam and their neighbor's son Jamal all live and play with each other in Chand's vast complex.