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Anuja Chauhan ( hi, अनुजा चौहान) is an Indian author, advertiser and screenwriter. As a writer, she is known for ''
The Zoya Factor ''The Zoya Factor'' is a novel written by Anuja Chauhan, published by HarperCollins India in 2008. It is about a Rajput woman named Zoya Singh Solanki who meets the Indian Cricket Team through her job as an executive in an advertising agenc ...
'' (2008), '' Battle For Bittora'' (2010), ''Those Pricey Thakur Girls'' (2013), ''The House That BJ Built'' (2015),''Baaz'' (2017), and ''Club You To Death'' (2021). She worked at the JWT advertising agency in India for over 17 years, becoming vice-president and executive creative director before resigning in 2010 to pursue a full-time literary career.


Early life and education

Born in the north Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
, Chauhan spent most of her childhood in various
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towns in
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, as her father served in the
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. He took premature retirement at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, migrating to Australia thereafter. She is the youngest of four sisters: Padmini, Rohini, Nandini, and Anuja. Her older sister
Nandini Bajpai Nandini Bajpai is a Boston-based author of Indian origin. Her debut young adult novel "Red Turban White Horse: My sister's hurricane wedding" was published by Scholastic India in 2013. Bajpai's book, Starcursed, a historical young adult novel, ...
is also an author. She did her schooling at the
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, New Delhi, Sophia Girls Convent,
Meerut Cantonment Meerut (, IAST: ''Meraṭh'') is a city in Meerut district of the western part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies northeast of the national capital New Delhi, within the National Capital Region and west of the state capital ...
and
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, New Delhi. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from
Miranda House Miranda House is a constituent college for women at the University of Delhi in India. Established in 1948, it is one of the top ranked colleges of the country and ranked as number 1 for consecutively six years (as of 2022). History Miranda ...
,
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, and a post graduate diploma in mass communication from the
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.


Career


Advertising

Chauhan joined JWT in 1993 and in the next seventeen years was responsible for many memorable catchphrases, primarily for Pepsi Cola, India, such as "Yeh Dil Maange More!", "Mera Number Kab Aayega","Nothing official about it" and " Oye Bubbly".Fire works
Woman, ''India Today'', March 2010.
Over the years she worked with brands like
Pepsi Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by PepsiCo. Originally created and developed in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and introduced as Brad's Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898, and then shortened to Pepsi in 1961. History Pepsi was ...
,
Kurkure Kurkure is a brand of spiced crunchy puffcorn snacks made up of rice, lentil and corn, owned by PepsiCo. The snack was originated in India and was launched in 1999 in the country. The snack is currently being manufactured and sold in India, Paki ...
,
Mountain Dew Mountain Dew, stylized as Mtn Dew, is a carbonated soft drink brand produced and owned by PepsiCo. The original formula was invented in 1940 by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman. A revised formula was created by Bill Brid ...
and
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, creating Pepsi's "Nothing official about it" campaign and advertising slogans such as Pepsi's "
Yeh Dil Maange More Yeh Dil Maange More! is an advertising slogan coined for Pepsi at JWT by Anuja Chauhan in 1998. It combines Hindi and English, literally meaning ''This Heart Desires More'', which later became a popular slogan. The slogan and its derivatives hav ...
" and "Oye Bubbly". Other popular
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s she worked on include ''Darr ke Aage Jeet Hai'' for
Mountain Dew Mountain Dew, stylized as Mtn Dew, is a carbonated soft drink brand produced and owned by PepsiCo. The original formula was invented in 1940 by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman. A revised formula was created by Bill Brid ...
, ''Tedha Hai par Mera Hai'' for
Kurkure Kurkure is a brand of spiced crunchy puffcorn snacks made up of rice, lentil and corn, owned by PepsiCo. The snack was originated in India and was launched in 1999 in the country. The snack is currently being manufactured and sold in India, Paki ...
, "Be a Little Dillogical", for
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Chips and ''KitKat Break Banta Hai'' for Nestle
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. By 2003 and at age 33, she was one of the youngest vice-presidents in JWT. She features regularly in ''
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'' supplement Brand Equity's list of the ten hottest creative directors in India, and was ranked 26th in the 'creativerankings 2010', a list of the leading executive creative directors in Asia-Pac. In August 2010, she resigned from her post of vice-president and Executive Creative Director at JWT to pursue a career in writing. She has remained active as an advertising consultant and was the only Indian to feature on the One Show Jury for the year 2011. In 2014, she started working on the Pepsi brand again, as a consultant for the Power of One team at JWT. She also consults for a few other favoured clients.


Author

She started working on her first novel in 2006. Cricket became the setting of her novel ''
The Zoya Factor ''The Zoya Factor'' is a novel written by Anuja Chauhan, published by HarperCollins India in 2008. It is about a Rajput woman named Zoya Singh Solanki who meets the Indian Cricket Team through her job as an executive in an advertising agenc ...
'', after her work on the
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brand for 13 years and close association with cricket advertising. ''The Zoya Factor'' ran the danger of being dismissed as 'Mills and Boon-ish' but most reviewers were quick to praise the depth of the author's characters, her wicked descriptions and the authenticity of her
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laced dialogue. She has been hailed as the best
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writer in India, but has repeatedly stated that "Chicks are small, brainless, powerless creatures, bred to be eaten. I'm not a chick and I don't write for chicks." ''
The Zoya Factor ''The Zoya Factor'' is a novel written by Anuja Chauhan, published by HarperCollins India in 2008. It is about a Rajput woman named Zoya Singh Solanki who meets the Indian Cricket Team through her job as an executive in an advertising agenc ...
'' has won ''Cosmopolitan'' Magazine, India's Fun Fearless Female award for literature (2008) and the ''
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'' Woman award for Woman as Storyteller (2009). It was longlisted for the India Plaza Golden Quill (2009). The novel was optioned for a film by
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production company. The option was for three years. Subsequently, the rights were purchased by Pooja Shetty Deora's Walkwater Films. The film, also titled
The Zoya Factor ''The Zoya Factor'' is a novel written by Anuja Chauhan, published by HarperCollins India in 2008. It is about a Rajput woman named Zoya Singh Solanki who meets the Indian Cricket Team through her job as an executive in an advertising agenc ...
, directed by Abhishek Sharma, produced by
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,
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and Walkwater films, with dialogues by Chauhan, and starring
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and
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was scheduled for release in September 2019. Her book, '' Battle For Bittora'' was released in 2010 by actor
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in Delhi in October 2010, to critical approval from ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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'' magazines. ''Tehelka'' called it a "worthy successor to ''The Zoya Factor''." According to Ira Pande, in ''
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'' magazine, Chauhan 'manages to legitimise a new vocabulary emerging from the violent collision between Bharat and India that has all the promise of a new lingua franca. In the way that
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,
Prasoon Joshi Prasoon Joshi (born 16 September 1971) is an Indian poet, writer, lyricist, screenwriter, and communication specialist and marketer. He is the CEO of McCann World group India and Chairman APAC (Asia Pacific), a subsidiary of the global marketi ...
and
A. R. Rahman Allah Rakha Rahman (; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer and songwriter, popular for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in int ...
have brought a whiff of newness into lyrics and jingles, this new language may outrage purists but describes perfectly memorable Indian sense-impressions, such as Bhainscafe, the brew that marries
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with nauseatingly rich buffalo milk.' ''
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'' is its review commended the book for its treatment, while giving the "biggest vote" to novel's characterisation. The film rights for ''Battle of Bittora'' were purchased by the film production company
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for three years for an undisclosed sum, and then sold to Anil Kapoor Film Company. A film starring Fawad Khan and Sonam Kapoor, produced by Rhea Kapoor has been announced. Shooting will commence in November 2015. Her third book, "Those Pricey Thakur Girls", set in pre-liberalization India, was released in January 2013 and is the first in a series of novels about the Thakurs of Hailey Road, an upper-middle-class Rajput family of five alphabetically named sisters. Initial sales and reviews were positive, with the book debuting and staying steady at Number 2 on
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's Top Ten Fiction Bestsellers list and comparisons to Jane Austen cropping up in every review. Mint scribed her writing style "as a mix of wit and colloquial exuberance and calling her the only Indian writer of popular fiction really worth buying."
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called her, "quite simply, the funniest writer of contemporary popular fiction." While
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stated that 'beneath the bubble and froth of this delightful novel, lies the starker reality of Delhi life.' The book was converted it into a daily soap twice. The first rendition was titled Dilli Wali Thakur Girls, and ran on &TV, starring
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and
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,
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, Anjali Anand,
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,
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and Sukhmani Sadana, and is directed by
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, while
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has a Creative producer credit. This series was generally agreed to be a more true adaptation of the source material and met with both critical and popular praise. Chauhan has also written the screenplay of a commercial feature film – a love story titled ''Guppie – mein liar nahi shayar hoon'' by
Nikhil Advani Nikhil Suresh Advani (born 28 April 1971) is an Indian film and television director, writer and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He along with his sister, Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani, co-founded the entertainment company Emmay Enterta ...
a Bollywood producer/director who directed ''
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'' and ''
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'', starring
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. She is currently writing two more screenplays, one for Anil Kapoor Film Company and one for production studio UTV-Disney. In early 2015, she moved from her long-time publishers HarperCollins India, to Westland, to 'try something new and reach out to more people.' The parting from Harper was 'cordial' and they continued to publish her backlist. The trailer for "The House that BJ Built" was launched on 15 May 2015. India Today said 'Chauhan is at the top of her game as she explores love and real estate in Delhi "It's a funny, feisty novel, with her trademark, exuberant, golgappa dialogue-Hindi deliciously spooned and scooped into English to tart it up-in place and some moments that you at once recognise as pure Bollywood." LiveMint's review of the book said "The House That BJ Built gives its readers, and its characters, exactly what they paid for." She returned to HarperCollins India for her fifth novel 'Baaz' (1 May 2017) a passionate tale of love and war set in 1971, at a fictitious Indian Air Force Base loosely modelled on
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, in West Bengal. Loved for her lead male characters, all of whom have a huge fan following, Anuja has stated that this latest hero Shaanu, aka Baaz, aka Flying Officer Ishaan Faujdaar, a jat boy from rural Haryana, is her favorite so far. India Today declared that "wartime love to Bollywood masala, this new novel has it all." Kaveree Bamzai called it a "cracker of a thriller" and "finally, a book worthy of the war during which it is set." While The Hindu stated that "you can smell both gun powder and romance in the air," and praised "the subtle commentary on the socio-political complexity of the times (which) keeps the reader close to ground reality." Online reviewers celebrated the fact that, despite the war-setting, the book is vintage Chauhan and as "laugh-out-loud funny and toe-curling sexy" as anything she has written previously. The rights for ''Baaz'' have been purchased by Yash Raj Films. She released her sixth novel ''Club You To Death'' in February 2021. It is her first murder mystery. In July 2021, Dinesh Vijan acquired the rights to make a film version.


Bibliography

* ''
The Zoya Factor ''The Zoya Factor'' is a novel written by Anuja Chauhan, published by HarperCollins India in 2008. It is about a Rajput woman named Zoya Singh Solanki who meets the Indian Cricket Team through her job as an executive in an advertising agenc ...
''. 2008.
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. . * '' Battle For Bittora: The Story Of India's Most Passionate Lok Sabha Contest!''. 2010, HarperCollins. * ''Those Pricey Thakur Girls'' (January 2013) Harper-Collins. * ''The House That BJ Built'' (May 2015) Westland. * ''Baaz'' (April 2017) HarperCollins * ''Club You To Death'' (February 2021) HarperCollins


Honors and awards

Chauhan was featured in '' Femina'' magazine's list of the 50 most beautiful women in India in 2011 and in MSN's The Influentials, a list of the top 50 most powerful women in the country. In 2017, she won the Femina Women Achievers Award, in the Literary contribution category. In 2018, she was awarded for her contributuion to Literature, by the
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Ladies Organization.


Personal life

Chauhan is married to the television presenter and producer,
Niret Alva Niret Alva is an Indian television producer who is the co-founder and chairman of television production company Miditech. Miditech first made a documentary series on the environment, ''Living on the Edge'' for Doordarshan, and went on to make ...
. The two met in Delhi in 1989, during the production of a college play. They married in 1994. They have three children, two girls, Niharika and Nayantara and a boy, Daivik. Chauhan's mother-in-law is
Margaret Alva Margaret Nazareth Alva ( born 14 April 1942) is an Indian politician. Alva served as the 17th Governor of Goa, 23rd Governor of Gujarat, 20th Governor of Rajasthan and 4th Governor of Uttarakhand the until the end of her tenure in August 2014. S ...
, a senior leader of the
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, the former General Secretary of the
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and the former Governor of the desert state of Rajasthan. Chauhan has two daughters, Niharika Margaret and Nayantara Violet, and a son, Daivik John. The couple moved to
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, a Delhi-suburb in 2002. She converted to Christianity eleven years after her marriage, but in 2018, stated that it (Christianity) was as good or as bad as any other organised religion— and that she is now quite firmly post-religious. 'I have not lost all hope in a Maker, but I know that nobody has a patent on him. And that he does not dwell in brick or mortar or in purported birthplaces.


See also

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References


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