Clare Mendonça
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Clare Mendonça | |
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 Mendonça in 1939 | |
| Born | 1910 |
| Died | 1953 (aged 43) |
| Education | St. Xavier's College, Bombay |
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| Years active | 1931–1953 |
| Employer | Times of India |
| Known for | One of the first female journalists of India |
| Notable credit | Filmfare Awards were earlier called Clare Awards in her honour |
Clare Mendonça (1910–1953) was a prominent film journalist in India, whose film reviews had a large readership. After her early death, she was honoured when the Clare Award, now the Filmfare Award, was instituted in 1954.[1]
Mendonça was a film critic with the Evening News of India newspaper, the evening partner of the Times of India Group around 1931, and later with The Times of India from 1933 to 1953.[1]
Family
Her family members included siblings Msgr Filipe Neri de Mendonça, Padre Guilherme de Mendonça and Frederico Mendonça.[2] Fr. Felipe Neri Mendonça was an outstanding educationist and a strict disciplinarian, principal from 1931 at the prominent English-medium St. Joseph's High School, Arpora, credited with constructing a new school building inaugurated in 1937, on the golden jubilee celebrations of the school.[3]
