Clare Mendonça

Clare Mendonça (1910–1953) was a prominent film journalist in India, whose film reviews had a large readership. She was honoured after her early death by having the Filmfare Award being briefly named the Clare Award when first instituted in 1954.[1]

Career

Mendonça was a film critic with the Evening News of India newspaper, the eveninger of the Times of India Group around 1931, and later with the The Times of India from 1933 to 1953.[1]

Family

Her other 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 since 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]

Education, posts

Clare Mendonça graduated from St. Xavier's College, in Bombay. She was elected as a co-vice president of the Film Journalists Association in 1939 when founded in Bombay, a post she shared with Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, under the presidency of Baburao Patel.[1]

Mendonça also wrote popular weekend film reviews in The Times of India Sunday supplement which was widely read.[1]

Award named

According to The Times of India, the Filmfare Awards were "earlier supposed to be called, The Clares Awards after the newspaper's film critic, Clare Mendonça.[4] She has also been called "one of the earliest film journalists in India".[5]

References
  1. "Clare Mendonca – Indiancine.ma Wiki". wiki.indiancine.ma. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  2. "Clare de Mendonça". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  3. "[Goanet] "Padriponn" (Priesthood) - Part 4 (Final)". www.mail-archive.com. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  4. "Filmfare Awards: Lesser known facts - Filmfare Awards: Lesser Known Facts". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  5. "Weekend Quiz : Guess who is she, and her significance in Indian Film Industry?". Twitter. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
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