Guneet Monga Age, Husband, Family, Biography & More
Guneet Monga Age, Husband, Family, Biography & More
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Age: 41 Years
Husband: Sunny Kapoor
Marriage Date: 12 December 2022
| Bio/Wiki | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Guneet Amarpreet Kaur Monga check sources Scroll |
| Profession(s) | ⢠Film Producer ⢠CEO of Sikhya Entertainment ⢠Co-Founder of Indian Women Rising (a cinematic collective) |
| Famous For | Producing the 2023 Oscar-winning short documentary film The Elephant Whisperers. |
| Physical Stats & More | |
| Height (approx.) | in centimeters**- 160 cm** in meters**- 1.60 m** in feet & inches**- 5â 4â** |
| Weight (approx.) | in kilograms**- 55 kg** in pounds**- 121 lbs** |
| Eye Colour | Black |
| Hair Colour | Medium Ash Brown |
| Career | |
| Debut | Film: Partition (2007) |
| Awards, Honours, Achievements | ⢠The Hollywood Reporter voted her as one of the top 12 achievers in the Global Entertainment industry. ⢠She was enlisted among the top 50 Indians changing India by India Today. ⢠According to the American film magazine, Variety, Guneet Monga is one of fifty women from the entertainment industry who is doing âextraordinary things on the worldwide stage.â ⢠Her international short film "Kavi" (2009), based on bonded labour in India, won the Student Academy Award - Narrative in 2009. The film was nominated for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film. ⢠In July 2014, she was enlisted in the list of '35 Achievers Under 35' by Mid-Day. ⢠Monga was one of the two women to be featured in Variety's 'International Womenâs Impact Report 2018.' ⢠In January 2019, GQ Magazine honored her as "Producer of The Year." ⢠In October 2019, she was honored as 'Most Powerful Women in Indian Business' by Business Today, and 'India's Most Powerful Businesswomen' by World Economic Forum. ⢠In December 2019, she was enlisted in the 'Five Indian Entertainers In The Global Spotlight' by The New Indian Express. ⢠Guneet Monga won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for her short film "Period. End of Sentence" at the 91st Academy Award in 2019. ⢠In April 2021, Guneet Monga was honored with the second highest civilian French honour, 'Chevalier dans I'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters), by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yues Le Drian in Delhi.  ⢠On 13 March 2023, she received an Oscar Award at the 95th Academy Award ceremony in the Best Documentary Short Film category. She shared the award with Kartiki Gonsalves , the director of the film.  |
| Personal Life | |
| Date of Birth | 21 November 1983 (Monday) |
| Age (as of 2024) | 41 Years |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Nationality | Indian |
| School | Bluebells School International, New Delhi, India |
| College/University | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi |
| Educational Qualification | Bachelors of Mass Communication check sources LinkedIn - Guneet Monga |
| Relationships & More | |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Marriage Date | 12 December 2022 |
| Family | |
| Husband/Spouse | Sunny Kapoor (fashion entrepreneur)  |
| Parents | Names not known  Note: Guneet Monga lost her patrents in 2008. |
Some Lesser Known Facts About Guneet Monga
Guneet Monga is an Indian film producer. She is the co-founder of Sikha Entertainment (a boutique film production house), and Indian Rising Women (a cinema collective). She came to the limelight in March 2023 after she received an Oscar for producing a 2022 documentary film The Elephant Whisperers.
She started her career as an intern for the French-German film âValley of Flowersâ in 2004. check sources Mint
In 2006, Monga joined Sepia Entertainment as a full-time production coordinator and worked for the English language film âPartitionâ (2007). The film was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography in 2008.
In April 2008, she founded her own production house, Sikhya Entertainment, in partnership with Achin Jain, a film producer. The production house worked on several notable films including âThat Girl in Yellow Bootsâ (2011), âThe Lunchboxâ (2013), âPeddlersâ (2013), âMasaanâ (2015), âHaraamkhorâ (2015), âSoorarai Pottruâ (2020), âPagglaitâ (2021), and âKathalâ (2023).
Her film âThe Lunchboxâ (2013) was a co-production between India, France, Germany, and the USA, and her film âMonsoon Shootoutâ (2013) was a co-production between India, the Netherlands, and the UK. In 2013, both films were selected for International Criticsâ Week and a midnight screening at the âCannes Film Festival 2013.â
Monga worked as a Supervising Producer at Balaji Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd for almost one year, and while working on the film âOnce Upon a Time in Mumbaaiâ (2010) in 2009, she met Anurag Kashyap following which she joined the Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd. (AKFPL). She was the CEO at AKFPL and worked on the films like Gangs of Wasseypur, Part I & II (2012), Trishna (2011), Shaitan (2011), Michael (2011), and Aiyya (2012).
She produced the 2022 Short Documentary film The Elephant Whisperers for which she received an Oscar in 2023. The film, which premiered on Netflix on 8 December 2022, shows the relationship shared by two mahouts named Bomman and Bellie with their elephants Raghu and Bommi (aka Ammu).
The Elephant Whisperers
Guneet Monga is a BAFTA nominee and among the first producers from India to be inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Monga faced age and gender discrimination in the initial days of her career. According to her, people often expected producers to be older males, and she believed that no one would accept her as a film producer at a young age; therefore, she used to dye her hair grey and wear sarees to her meetings to look older. While talking about this in an interview, she said,
Otherwise, how would a twenty-six-year-old be taken seriously? I just had to fake itâthat I know my shit.â check sources Scroll
Before becoming an established film producer, Monga worked as a DJ, an insurance agent, a sales agent for Laughing Cow cheese, an event planner, a rally car driver, and a property saleswoman.
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