Sanjit Narwekar


Sanjit Narwekar is an Indian documentary filmmaker scriptwriter and author. A 1967 alumni of Bombay Scottish High School, Mumbai, he completed his Bachelor’s in Statistics and his Master’s in Economics from the University of Mumbai.

Early career

He began writing in 1969 while he was still in college and has more than 2500 articles to his credit in the last 50 years. During his post graduation he worked at the National Institute of Bank Management but opted to work in journalism soon after he had completed his Masters. He worked in a wide variety of newspaper organizations and has been News Editor of Screen, Editor of TV & Video World and Executive Editor of Documentary Today.

Career

Narwekar has authored/edited 20 books on film history and published more than 100 books for various organizations. He has also hosted interviews/magazine programs for All India Radio and Doordarshan. He has participated in several national and international seminars and conducted workshops on various aspects of Indian cinema, both in India and abroad. He has also served on several selection committees and juries and has been a member of the Film Advisory Board of the Government of India.
He worked briefly as scriptwriter before turning to documentary films. He is based in Mumbai, India and heads his content management company Transedit.

Awards

In 1996 he was awarded the Swarna Kamal for the Best Book on Cinema for Marathi Cinema in Retrospect. The Delhi-based newspaper The Pioneer nominated it among the top five books on Indian cinema in post-independent India.
In 2017 he was made Sanmanniya Sabhasad of the Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh.
In 2020 he was conferred the Bimal Roy Memorial Award "for documenting Indian Cinema's History with knowledge and scholarship".

Films: Documentaries

Curated and wrote six presentations on V Shantaram for the Google Arts & Culture