Early Life and Education
Taraporevala, who is of Parsi Zoroastrian descent, was born and brought up in Mumbai.
She did her schooling from Queen Mary School in Mumbai, and thereafter did her BA from Harvard University, in 1980. Here she met Nair as an undergraduate, leading to their longtime creative collaboration. Next she joined the Cinema Studies Department at New York University, and after receiving her MA in Film Theory and Criticism, in 1981, she returned to India to work as a freelance still photographer.
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