Aleya Sen is an Indian director, producer and writer of

Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...

films. She made her directorial and writing debut with the film ''

Dil Juunglee ''Dil Juunglee'' () is an Indian romantic comedy film written and directed by Aleya Sen. It stars Taapsee Pannu, Saqib Saleem, Abhilash Thapliyal, Nidhi Singh, Ayesha Kaduskar, Srishti Shrivastava and Santosh Barmola. It was released on 9 Marc ...

'' (2018). She also produced the film ''

Badhaai Ho ''Badhaai Ho'' (; ) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma and produced by Sharma, Aleya Sen and Hemant Bhandari under Chrome Pictures and Vineet Jain under Junglee Pictures. It stars Ayushmann ...

'' in 2018.

Career

Sen started her career as an assistant director under

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in Delhi. In 2004, Sen along Amit Sharma and Hemant Bhandari, established Chrome Pictures Pvt Ltd. a production house in

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Filmography

*''

'' (2018) (director) *''

'' (2018) (producer)

Awards

* Dadasaheb Phalke Gold for "Wagh Bakri" in 2015 * Bronze Medal at the ‘Cannes Lion and gold at ‘Goa film festival’ for ‘THE SILENT NATIONAL ANTHEM’ in 2011.

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* Living people Indian women film directors Hindi-language film directors 21st-century Indian women writers 21st-century Indian writers Indian women screenwriters 21st-century Indian film directors Hindi screenwriters Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Indian screenwriters {{India-film-director-stub