Sukanya Verma is an Indian journalist and

film critic Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets ...

. She has been the principal movie reviewer with web portal ''

Rediff.com Rediff.com (stylized as ''rediff.com'') is an Indian news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal. It was founded in 1996. It is headquartered in Mumbai, with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and New York City. , it had more than 300 e ...

''. She has written a number of columns as a freelance writer for ''

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...

''. She is a member of the Film Critics Guild, founded in 2018.

Biography

Sukanya Verma was born in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

, India. She is a graduate of

St. Xavier's College, Mumbai St. Xavier's College is a private, Catholic, autonomous higher education institution run by the Bombay Province of the Society of Jesus in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded by the Jesuits on January 2, 1869. The college is aff ...

. She works as a senior film critic, music critic, columnist, features writer and quiz host with

and its sister publication India Abroad since seventeen years.

Awards

Verma won the Best Critic Award at 5th Jagran Film Festival in 2014.

References

External links

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Indian journalists Indian film critics Indian journalists Indian women journalists Indian women columnists Journalists from Maharashtra St. Xavier's College, Mumbai alumni {{India-journalist-stub