I grew up in Bombay, and as all true Bombayites, always had aspirations to get into Bollywood – that glamorous movie business! I actually even performed in a movie, a small 5-minute dance on a patriotic song, as a child actor. The movie, alas, was a flop the minute it screened, but the song would come on Chhaya Geet every 15thAugust and I would pretty much be the laugh of my friends on the 16th. This movie incidentally is nowhere online – not even on YouTube! It hit me hard that my dashing looks were probably not going to be my ticket.
Author
Shalini Govil-Pai
Shalini Govil-Pai
Shalini Govil-Pai (B.Tech. '90 CSE H10) is Sr. Director at Google/YouTube where she heads up global technology solutions for YouTube partners. Previously, she was founder & lead Product Manager on Google TV and on Adwords. Prior to Google, Shalini was a technical director at Pixar Animation, where she led technical efforts for the blockbuster films Toy Story and A Bug’s Life. She is also author of two books in Computer Graphics. Shalini has a B.Tech.in computer science from IIT Bombay (1990) and an MS from Penn State.