Anita Pratap

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anita Pratap
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Dec 23, 1958(1958-12-23)
Age	66
Birthplace	Kottayam
Country	India
Birth City	Kerala
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Anita Pratap Biography

Anita Pratap is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on December 23, 1958 in Kottayam, Kerala, India. After she completed her degree of journalism Anita got a job offer from Arun Shourie who was then Editor for The Indian Express in Delhi. After that, she was moved to Bangalore to stay alongside her family. Soon after, she became a part of Sunday Magazine. Her passion for journalism was international politics which brought her to ethnic conflicts that raged in Sri Lanka. She visited numerous places to collect first-hand details. She was interviewed in 1983. sat down with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s (LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran. This was the first interview Prabhakaran presented to the world, in which he discussed his philosophy behind the creation of LTTE and of taking the situation on his own rather than relying on the government and his plans for the future. Anita was recognized immediately internationally. She continued to efforts on the island of Sri Lanka and later in 2003, she published her first novel Island of Blood writing down the experiences she had while living in terror-stricken regions.

Moving to television instead of printing mediums, Anita also made various documentary films on social issues as well as the arts. The most notable of these is Light Up The Sky, she explores the transformation of rebellious Mizoram into a democratically-governed state. Documentaries she has made, Orphans of an Ancient Civilization highlight the hardships faced by craftsmen and The Soul Glows documents folk dance practices. The Shabash Hallelujah documentary was made about the Naga Regiment. Co-authoring it with a photographer from Bangalore Mahesh Bhatt. Bhatt released her unpublished book in 2007, telling the stories of nine common Indian people who served society.

Anita was born in Kottayam, Kerala in a Syrian Catholic family. Her father was employed with a Tata group enterprise, he was posted at different locations in India taking his family with him. As a child Anita changed seven schools in eleven years. She passed Senior Cambridge from a Loreto School Kolkata and did her BA – English from Miranda House, New Delhi in 1978 and diploma in journalism from Bangalore University.

She was the first bride to be married with Pratap Chandran and she has one son named Zubin from her previous relationship born at the age of aged 22. Pratap Chandran had been a top journalist at The Indian Express where the two of them met. After divorce, she separated from Chandran and took charge of their son. The year 1999 was the time she was married Arne Roy Walther Arne Roy Walther, who is a Norwegian diplomat. Walther also had a second marriage.

Anita Pratap Net Worth

Anita Pratap is one of the richest Film Director from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anita Pratap 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Anita Pratap is an expatriate Indian journalist and writer. In 1983 Pratap was among the journalists to conducted an interview with LTTE Chief V. Prabhakaran. She was awarded the George Polk award for TV reporting in recognition of her television reporting on the annexation by Kabul from the Taliban. She was India the bureau chief of CNN. She wrote the book Island of Blood based on Sri Lanka. In 2013, she was honored by the Shriratna global award by the Kerala Kala Kendram an organisation that is affiliated with the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi. She was selected as an Aam Aadmi party candidate in Ernakulam, Kerala for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Anita worked with India Today and then was an editor to TIME Magazine for eight years. Following the bombings of 1993 of Bombay (now Mumbai), she also conducted an interview with Bal Thackeray in TIME who was then head of Shiv Sena which was the main opposition party in Maharashtra. states of Maharashtra. In 1996 she was a part of CNN for the first time, which was her first job as a television journalist. She was a reporter at Atlanta and Bangkok bureaus. Atlanta as well as at the Bangkok office for only a brief period to gain the experience. Then she covered news of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul and received the George Polk Award.

The character of Jaya, played by Nargis Fakhri in the 2013 Bollywood thriller, Madras Cafe is modelled on Anita Pratap. In the film, Jaya interviews LTF leader Anna Bhaskaran, who is in turn, modelled on Velupillai Prabhakaran.

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Who is Anita Pratap Dating?

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Anita Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Anita Pratap celebrates birthday on December 23 of every year.

Top Facts about Anita Pratap

1. Anita Pratap is an Indian journalist and writer.
2. She was born on 28 February 1958 in Chennai, India.
3. Pratap has worked for various media outlets including CNN and Time magazine.
4. She covered the Sri Lankan Civil War extensively in the 1990s.
5. In 1996, she interviewed LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, which was a rare feat for a journalist at that time.
6. Pratap has authored several books including “Island of Blood” and “The Mountains of Heaven”.
7. She has won numerous awards for her journalism including the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award.
8. Pratap is known for her fearless reporting and investigative journalism skills.
9. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Stella Maris College, Chennai and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
10. Currently, she resides in Singapore with her family but continues to write about South Asia affairs as a freelance journalist and author.