Urmi Juvekar is an Indian screenwriter and documentary filmmaker best known for writing the screenplays of ''

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'' (2008), ''

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'' (2010) and ''

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'' (2012).

Early life

She pursued a bachelor's degree in Social Work from

Mumbai University The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed ...

. Post her graduation, she landed her first job with the ''Xavier's Institute of Communication'' at

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 ...

Career

Urmi began her career in the entertainment industry as a documentary-film writer and director. With the film '' Darmiyaan: In Between'' (1997), directed by

Kalpana Lajmi Kalpana Lajmi (1954–2018) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Lajmi was an independent filmmaker working more on realistic, low-budget films, which are known in India as parallel cinema. Her films were often woman-oriented. ...

, Urmi made her feature film screenwriting debut. She also made a short film, ''The Shillong Chamber Choir'', based on an Indian chamber choir formed in 2001, popularly known by the name

Shillong Chamber Choir The Shillong Chamber Choir was founded in Shillong, Meghalaya, in 2001. It received fame after winning the reality talent show India's Got Talent (Season 2) in October 2010 on Colours TV, part of the Got Talent (India) franchise, where it perform ...

. Since then, she has written several acclaimed Indian feature films including '' Shararat'' (2002), '' Rules: Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula'' (2003), ''

'' (2008) and ''

'' (2010), most popularly credited with writing the screenplay for the film ''

'', which released in 2012 to wide critical and commercial success. Urmi has most recently written the screenplay for the upcoming release ''

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! ''Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!'' is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language mystery action thriller film directed by Dibakar Banerjee, and produced by Banerjee and Aditya Chopra. The story is based on the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi created by the B ...

'', an Indian crime thriller film directed by

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and co-produced by

Yash Raj Films Yash Raj Films (YRF) is an Indian film production and distribution company founded by veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra in 1970. It mainly produces and distributes Hindi and Punjabi films. The company has grown to be one of the largest film studios ...

and ''Dibakar Banerjee Productions''.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Juvekar, Urmi Indian women screenwriters Living people University of Mumbai alumni Indian documentary filmmakers Women writers from Maharashtra Screenwriters from Mumbai 21st-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Indian women writers Indian women documentary filmmakers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Indian screenwriters