Renu Saluja

Renu Saluja ( रेणु सलुजा ) (July 5, 1952–August 16, 2000) was an Indian film editor. Renu was a four time National Award Winner for Best Editor for Parinda (1989),Dharavi (1991), Sardar (1993) and Godmother (1999) besides winning Filmfare Awards for Parinda and (1994).

Ironically when Renu applied to the Film and Television Institute of India, editing was only her second choice. She had applied for direction and did not get through the direction interview. But she did pass the editing interview and was persuaded by her parents to go ahead with it.

Once out of the FTII, Renu's early work was in parallel cinema with her FTII Colleagues - Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Saeed Mirza, Kundan Shah, and Ashok Ahuja.

The first offer that Renu got from outside her protected circle of 'FTII' filmmakers was Govind Nihalani's Ardh Satya, filmed in 1983. After Ardh Satya, her career really took off.

Parinda was perhaps the first mainstream film that Renu edited. Unlike the smaller films which were made in one schedule and thus she used to get the whole film in front of her before she commenced editing, Parinda was shot over a period of three years depending on star dates, availability of locations, etc.

In the 1990s Renu struck a balance between mainstream cinema as well as parallel cinema and the new crop of 'different indie films' that has cropped up following the success of Hyderabad Blues. Some of the well-known films that Renu has edited include Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983), Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1993), Bandit Queen (1995), Pardes (1997), Rockford (1999) and Hey Ram (2000) and she had just completed work on Nagesh Kukunoor's Bollywood Calling.

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External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0759183/ Renu Saluja IMDB Link]
* [http://www.shekharkapur.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_editor_of_b.htm Shekhar Kapur on Renu Saluja in his blog]
* [http://www.graftii.com/renu_book.aspx?PageID=1 GRAFTII Book, Invisible: the art of Renu Saluja]