Priya Singh Paul
Priya Singh Paul is a TV media personality who has produced several TV shows and has also been in leadership roles in major media channels like Doordarshan, Zee TV and Just Punjabi. Since July 2017, she is in news for claiming to be the secret daughter of Sanjay Gandhi.[1]
Career[edit]
Priya has been an Additional Director General, Activist, Columnist, Roving Editor, Producer, Director, Writer, Anchor, Consultant, in the fields of television, films, live events, government, sports, geopolitical projects, civil society and public life.[2][3] [4]
Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010[edit]
In 2009, the Commonwealth Games was facing numerous managerial and administration hassles for which the governing body decided to appoint key bureaucrats to streamline the project. Priya Singh Paul, with a vast experience in media, product launches, event management and senior managerial and corporate experience, was brought in as Additional Director General in January, 2010 nine months before the Games were to be held and continued till 2011 end. Her role in the 2010 Commonwealth Games was the creation, administration and implementation of programmes in association with various State Governments and administrations of Union Territories along with the Commonwealth Games Federation, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Ministry of External Affairs (India), Security agencies, and Government of Delhi. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Columnist[edit]
She has written articles for the Hindustan Times, The Statesman, Mid Day and Plus News Bank.[9] [10]
Zee TV[edit]
Priya became producer and director in the Zee TV group headed by Subhash Chandra.
Her first production was Bazaar Buzz, a daily stock market programme, whose chief advisor was DSP Merrill Lynch owned by Hemendra Kothari at that time. It was a telecast from Hong Kong. Then in August 1993, she created the 'Dream Merchants', India's first programme on advertising and marketing which was anchored by Piyush Pandey, Kamlesh Pandey, Alyque Padamsee, Bharat Dabolkar, and Jagdeep Kapoor.[11][12]
She was the producer and director of "Swayamvar 2000", India’s first game show with celebrities like Sachin Tendulkar, Aishwarya Rai, Urmila Matondkar, Malaika Arora Khan and many more as participants in 1995.[13]
She made her first Telefilm " Humein Jahan Pyaar Mile" for Zee Cinema in her 20s. She was the writer, producer, director for the same.[14]
Priya made her feature film "The Perfect Husband (2003), a romantic comedy cum social satire, predominantly in English with a smattering of Hindi and Punjabi, in the year 2004. It is a modern and thought-provoking look at the Indian marriage 'game'- the quest for the only security symbol that most Indian women possesses: a husband, perfect or otherwise! The movie was invited to Palm Spring International Film Festival and shown in Cannes Film Festival.[15][16][17][18][19] The movie rights were purchased by 20th Century Fox and Eros International. However, a court case on flimsy ground by the co-financier stalled the release.
Other landmarks[edit]
Priya has been on the Jury for Emmy Awards and Indian Telly Awards.[20]
Priya was the Head of Programming and Chief Operating Officer for the launch of Just TV Punjabi now called GET PUNJABI, a Punjabi channel telecast in the USA and Canada, in 2008 after which she moved to Zee Group as Head Consultant of Business and Programming creating programme ideas, business, media, marketing and PR plans.[21]
Claim to be Indira Gandhi's grand-daughter[edit]
Priya Singh Paul has claimed that Sanjay Gandhi, (son of Indira Gandhi) was her biological father[22], and that she was given away by her biological family for adoption. In June 2017, she gave a legal notice in her capacity as his daughter to stop the release of a film on Sanjay Gandhi.[23]
Paul said that she was adopted by her foster parents Shiela Singh Paul and Balwant Paul in 1968, the year of her birth. Priya Singh Paul claimed that she was born in 1968 and adopted in 1974, and that the reason given for her adoption was that since her biological father was in politics, the child was required to stay separately for sometime and also that her mother was underage back then. Paul said she had been adopted as a baby and claimed she was told about Sanjay Gandhi being her biological father after she grew up[24]
References[edit]
- ↑ Goswami, Dev (11 July 2017). "Indira Gandhi's 'secret granddaughter' slams Madhur Bhandarkar's Indu Sarkar" (July 2017). India Today. India Today.
- ↑ Ms.Priya Singh Paul ADG (Communications), 2010 Commonwealth Games [1]
- ↑ Priya Ruth Singh Paul, an Indian-Jewish filmmaker [2]
- ↑ Priya Ruth Paul Director | Writer | Producer [3]
- ↑ Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation and Control Cases in Strategic Mgmt Vol-ii - Page 172 [4]
- ↑ Queen’s Baton to arrive in September As part of the Green Games initiative, each state will also plant at least 10,000 saplings to commemorate the Games. Kadyan and Priya Singh Paul, ADG Communication, were due to meet the Chief Minister and other high ranking officials to work out the modalities of the QBR. [5]
- ↑ 1,500 blood tests to be conducted during CWG said additional director general Communications of the Games, Priya Singh Paul. [6]
- ↑ Kadyan and Priya Singh Paul,bLeading the QBR convoy was Shera, the Games session [7]
- ↑ Mr Postman The friendly neighbourhood postman may soon be undergoing a transformation under the impact of modernisation says Priya Singh Paul [8]
- ↑ Editorial. Priya Singh Paul. February XXI. XIV RAHUL GANDHI: INNERMOST CONFLICT Priya Singh Paul-fnbworld By Priya Singh Paul [9]
- ↑ Zee plans new show on successful advertising- Dream Merchants by Priya Singh Paul [10]
- ↑ Zee TV, one of the first Indian channels on the cable TV had this program called The Dream Merchants. Among other things it showcased the best advertisements in the world [11]
- ↑ Priya was the producer-director of Swayamvar 2000, one of the first game shows on telly and Meri Saheli on Star Plus. And also the writer-producer-director of a short feature film Hamein Jahan Pyaar Mile for Zee and a 30-minute fiction capsule called Yule Love Stories. [12]
- ↑ Humein Jahan Pyar Mile (1997) by Priya Singh Paul [13]
- ↑ The Perfect Husband (110 mins, PG) Directed by Priya Singh Paul [14]
- ↑ The Perfect Husband (2003) – IMDb [15]
- ↑ Priya Ruth Paul makes her debut with this comedy/drama about the clash between marital traditions and the contemporary world. The result feels more like a TV movie than a feature, with mild humor and familiar complications that will not be enough to compensate for Westerners' impatience with the meddling old woman. [16]
- ↑ On May 12, 2004 - the day Priya Singh Paul’s movie The Perfect Husband was shown at the Cannes Film Festival [17]
- ↑ Perfect Husband to premiere at Cannes film fest [18]
- ↑ Indian Telly Awards 2005 : The Jury- Priya Singh Paul [19]
- ↑ director, creative head, anchor, producer, writer and more, Priya Paul Singh has now taken up a fresh task — to make Punjab a media hub. We chat up the COO and head programming of Just TV Punjabi and find out more about the channel and also what drives this Punjabi to work. [20]
- ↑ "Priya Singh Paul". 10 January 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ↑ Jha, Subhash (June 29, 2017). "Sanjay Gandhi's 'daughter' sends legal notice to Indu Sarkar director Madhur Bhandarkar". Hindustan Times. Hindustan Times. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ↑ "Meet the woman who claims to be 'secret daughter' of Sanjay Gandhi". Mid-Day. 12 July 2017.
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