"Guneet Monga has been redefining films and their
journeys with diverse new-age projects, including the Oscar-winning Period. End
of Sentence (2019), The Lunchbox (2013), Masaan (2015), and Gangs of Wasseypur
(2011). One of the first Indian producers to be inducted into the Producer's
Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences and featured in
Variety's International Women's Impact Report 2018, Guneet Monga is a force to
reckon with and a game-changing producer in Indian cinema. She is the youngest
person to be conferred with the ‘Most Powerful Women in Indian Business Award’
by Business Today in 2014 and was voted as one of the top 12 women achievers in
the Global Entertainment Industry by The Hollywood Reporter."
Voted as one of the top 12 women achievers in the Global
Entertainment industry by the Hollywood Reporter and among the top 50 Indians
changing India by India Today. Guneet has been a force to reckon with and the
youngest game-changing producer in Indian cinema.
Guneet started her career in production with international
projects like Murder Unveiled, Valley of Flowers and Partition. She has since
been associated with a number of path-breaking films in India, Say Salaam India
being her first venture as a Producer followed by Dasvidaniya. In 2009, Guneet
Monga produced 23 feature films in 4 years, including the critically acclaimed
Gangs of Wasseypur I & II that had a much talked about premiere at the
Cannes film festival and was a major success at the Indian Box Office, which
was later released as an Eight-part series by Netflix in the USA. The film
carved a journey which was unheard of for any Indian film before.
Guneet Monga has been redefining films and their journeys
with diverse new-age projects like Monsoon Shootout, That Girl in Yellow Boots,
Shahid and Peddlers amongst others.A torch bearer for Indian film industry,
Guneet has emerged as one of the most successful Indian producers for global
projects with films such as Ari Folman’s The Congress, Michael Winterbottom’s
Trishna and Danis Tanovic’s Tigers. Her short film Kavi was nominated for an
Academy Award for Live Action Short and won Best Narrative at the Student
Academy Awards.
In 2013, Guneet produced the The Lunchbox which became a
global sensation, premiering at the Cannes film festival (Le Semaine de les
Critiques), the film was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, garnering 23m USD
in global box office. It was also nominated for prestigious BAFTA awards in the
best foriegn language film category.
Guneet’s Indo-French Co-Production Masaan (Fly Away Solo)
won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes in 2015 besides numerous prestigious awards in
India and across the globe. An innovator at every level, Guneet is the youngest
person to be conferred with the ‘Most Powerful Woman in Indian Business Award’
by Business Today in 2014 and again in 2019.
This year, in 2019, Guneet was able to take home incredible
back-to-back awards on two different shorts. An Oscar in for ‘Period. End of
Sentence’ and two weeks later, a Film fare award for ‘Plus Minus’.