---
name: "Sabrina Dhawan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sabrina-dhawan"
fi1m_id: "sabrina-dhawan"
imdb_id: "nm0223526"
tmdb_id: 6496
wikidata_id: "Q7396408"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T03:29:34.583511+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sabrina Dhawan

## Identity

Sabrina Dhawan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sabrina-dhawan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sabrina-dhawan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0223526
- **TMDB ID:** 6496
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7396408
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Dhawan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7396408, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223526/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6496

Writer. Born 1 January 1969 in London.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1969, London
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Dhawan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7396408, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223526/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6496

## Biography

Sabrina Dhawan is a screenwriter who works between India and the United States. She wrote the screenplay for *Monsoon Wedding* (2001), directed by Mira Nair, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and received a Golden Globe nomination. She graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program in 2001, having written the first draft of the script while a student.

Her other screenwriting credits include the segment 'India' in *September 11* (2002), *Kaminey* (2009), *Ishqiya* (2010) and *Rangoon* (2017). She wrote and directed the short film *Saanjh – As Night Falls* (2000) and has served as story consultant on *Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola* (2013). Dhawan is Professor and Area Head of Screenwriting at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She wrote the book for the stage musical adaptation of *Monsoon Wedding*.

*Sources: imdb.com, wikiwand.com, tisch.nyu.edu, macdowell.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Monsoon Wedding* (2001), Fi1m 80, as Tuppa Girl #4 — [page](https://film.one/film/monsoon-wedding.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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- *Rangoon* (2017), Screenplay
- *Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola* (2013), Script Supervisor
- *Ishqiya* (2010), Screenplay
- *Kaminey* (2009), Screenplay
- *Cosmopolitan* (2003), Screenplay
- *11’09”01—September 11: India* (2002), Writer
- *September 11* (2002), Writer
- *Monsoon Wedding* (2001), as Tuppa Girl #4 · Screenplay — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/monsoon-wedding.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/sabrina-dhawan