Screenwriter, novelist and audio producer, Reenita Malhotra Hora has won the best screenplay award for her novel ‘Operation Mom: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life and a Man’ at the Santa Barbara International Screenplay awards.
Operation Mom
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Published on 05, May 2023
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