Pamela Rooks

Pamela Rooks is an Indian film director, producer, writer, and screenwriter who has made only a few but very significant films that dealt with our society, and problems. Her movies had been widely screened at many film festivals, and have won rave reviews for its powerful screenplay. She was born in Kolkata in an Army household but did her schooling in a boarding school at Nainital and Shimla. She was born to Col. A. N. Juneja and Gudi Juneja.

Even in her school days, she was interested in dramatics. Later on, when she did mass communication from Delhi in the 1970s, she got closely associated with a theatre group. She got involved with Delhi-based Theater Action Group that was founded by Barry John Barry John can be considered to be the “Alchemist” >> Read More... , Siddharth Basu, Roshan Seth He is an Indian born British actor, born on 2nd Ap >> Read More... and Mira Nair Mira Nair, a veteran Filmmaker, based in New York >> Read More... . She started her career as a news producer in Doordarshan, and as a producer of news and current affairs. She took an interview of Conrad Rooks who directed the most controversial film ' Siddhartha Click to look into! >> Read More... ' (1972) that had Simi Grewal and Shashi Kapoor Shashi Kapoor, a name that needs no introduction, >> Read More... in the lead role.

This film had cinematography by Sven Nykvist. After she met Rooks in a DD program while taking an interview, it bred into a fairy tale that helped them to tie the knot. Later on, she made her career as a documentary filmmaker. After making for the viewers a series of documentary movies that dealt with public and social issues, she made her first feature film “Miss Beatty's Children" (1992). For this flick, she was awarded with the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director at the National Film Awards The National Film Awards gets presented every year >> Read More... . After a gap of six years, she made a film based on Khushwant Singh's novel ‘Train to Pakistan’ (1956) which spoke about the partition of India in 1947. The film starred Nirmal Pandey Actor Nirmal Pandey was the first actor to play th >> Read More... , Rajit Kapur Rajit Kapur is a famous Indian actor most known fo >> Read More... , Mohan Agashe Mohan Agashe is a theater based actor who predomin >> Read More... , Smriti Mishra Smriti Mishra, a Bollywood actress with an express >> Read More... , Mangal Dhillon Mangal Dhillon is a renowned Indian actor, who als >> Read More... , and Divya Dutta.

The film 'Train to Pakistan’ was produced by Channel Four Films and National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), and production company was Kaleidoscope Entertainment. In 2003, she made an English film 'Dance Like a Man' for which she was the director, and the movie won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English.

It is sad that the in November 2005, she met with an accident when her Toyota car dashed with a Maruti Car as she was returning home from Indira Gandhi International Airport. Due to the accident, she had a brain injury, and this led her into a coma for four years. Later, she died of a cardiac arrest on 1 October 2010 at the age of 52. She married the American Director Conrad Rooks and had a son, Ryan. They divorced in 1985. Later, it was stated that she had an affair with Prince Richard Holkar , son of HH Maharaja Yeshwant Rao II Holkar of Indore.