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with breath and no name and you leave with name and no breath.” Guneet Monga holds these words by Swami Gaur Gopal Das very close to her heart. “Our taste is what defines us, and my taste is for good storytelling,” I & II (2012), , (2013), (2015), (2019), (2021) and (2022), which became India’s first Oscar-winning film in the documentary short category. Her knack of getting funding and putting Indian films on the world map through international festivals has earned Guneet the title of the ‘Queen of Indie Cinema’.

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