Arundhati Roy was born on November 23, 1961 in Shillong, Assam, India. She is an actress and writer, known for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989), Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai (2003) and Electric Moon (1992). She is married to Pradip Krishen. She was previously married to Gerard da Cunha.
In 1984, she met independent filmmaker Pradip Krishen, who offered her a role as a goatherd in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib. Later, the two married. They collaborated on a television series on India's independence movement and on two films, Annie and Electric Moon. Disenchanted with the film world, Roy did various jobs, including running aerobics classes. Roy and Krishen eventually separated. She became financially secure with the success of her novel The God of Small Things, published in 1997.
Roy is a cousin of prominent media personality Prannoy Roy, the head of the leading Indian television media group NDTV. She lives in Delhi.
seen here with Raghubir Yadav in the film 'Massey Sahib' (1985)
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