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{{Short description|Indian casting director and producer}}
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'''Seher Latif''' (died 7 June 2021) or '''Seher Aly Latif''' was an Indian [[Film producer|producer]] and [[Casting Director|casting director]], who worked on a number of domestic and international film projects based in India. Her credits as a casting director including award-winning films such as ''[[The Lunchbox]], Shakuntala Devi'', and the Indian casting for ''[[Zero Dark Thirty]]'', ''[[Eat Pray Love]],'' and ''[[The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel]],'' as well as television shows such as ''[[Sense8]],'' and ''[[McMafia]].'' She also produced the Indian romantic television series, ''[[Bhaag Beanie Bhaag]]'', starring [[Swara Bhasker]]. In 2016, ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle Magazine]]'' listed her as one of the 'most powerful young Indian women in Bollywood'.

== Career ==
Latif worked primarily as a casting director, often collaborating with international film and television projects to cast Indian actors for scenes filmed in India. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' described her as " one of the most sought-after casting directors for international projects set in India or with a significant India component."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Ramachandran|first=Naman|date=2021-06-07|title=‘The Lunchbox’ Casting Director Seher Aly Latif Dies in Mumbai|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/asia/the-lunchbox-casting-director-seher-latif-dead-1234990283/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref> She worked on a number of well-received international projects that were filmed partly in India, including [[Kathryn Bigelow]]'s ''[[Zero Dark Thirty]]'', [[John Madden (director)|John Madden]]'s''[[The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel]]'', [[Ryan Murphy (writer)|Ryan Murphy]]'s ''[[Eat Pray Love]]'', and ''[[The Hundred-Foot Journey (film)|The Hundred-Foot Journey]].''<ref name=":0" /> In addition to her work in film, she also did casting for a number of television series that were filmed in or relating to India, including ''[[Sense8]]'', ''[[McMafia]],'' and ''[[The Good Karma Hospital]].''<ref>{{Cite web|date=8 June 2021|title=The Lunchbox casting director Seher Aly Latif dies of cardiac arrest in Mumbai|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/celebrities/story/the-lunchbox-casting-director-seher-aly-latif-dies-of-cardiac-arrest-in-mumbai-1812146-2021-06-08|access-date=2021-11-30|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-08|title=The Lunchbox casting director Seher Aly Latif dies, Nimrat Kaur, Richa Chadha mourn her loss|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/the-lunchbox-casting-director-seher-aly-latif-dies-nimrat-kaur-richa-chadha-mourn-her-loss-101623131791200.html|access-date=2021-11-30|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref> In 2013, along with Mark Bennett and Richard Hicks, she was nominated for an award for Big Budget/Feature Casting for her work on ''Zero Dark Thirty'', by the [[Casting Society of America]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=|date=2013-08-19|title=Casting Society Unveils Artios Nominees|url=https://deadline.com/2013/08/artios-award-2013-nominees-list-566946/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref>

In India, Latif was the casting director for ''[[The Lunchbox]],'' which won several domestic and international awards. More recently, she worked as a producer for ''Shakuntala Devi,'' a biographical film about the Indian mathematician [[Shakuntala Devi]], starring [[Vidya Balan]], as well as on ''[[Bhaag Beanie Bhaag]]'', an Indian romantic television series for [[Netflix]] that starred [[Swara Bhasker]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2021-06-08|title=Casting director-producer Seher Aly Latif passes away|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/maska-bhaag-beanie-bhaag-producer-seher-aly-latif-passes-away-7348121/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref> ''Bhaag Beanie Bhaag'' was a production of Mutant Studios, a production studio set up by Latif and Shivani Saran in 2016. They also produced a sports drama, ''GOLD'', starring [[Akshay Kumar]], in 2018.<ref name=":0" /> Other recent work included casting on a biopic of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, titled ''[[The Man Who Knew Infinity (film)|The Man Who Knew Infinity]]'' and starring [[Dev Patel]], a period film, ''[[Viceroy's House (film)|Viceroy's House]]'', directed by [[Gurinder Chadha]], and a horor-drama, ''[[Durgamati]],'' starring [[Bhumi Pednekar]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Producer Seher Aly Latif, known for 'The Lunchbox' & 'Durgamati', passes away due to cardiac arrest|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/producer-seher-aly-latif-known-for-the-lunchbox-durgamati-passes-away-due-to-cardiac-arrest/articleshow/83332377.cms|access-date=2021-11-30}}</ref> In 2016, ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle Magazine]]'' listed her as one of the 'most powerful young Indian women in Bollywood'.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Meet the most powerful young women in Bollywood|url=https://elle.in/article/women-in-bollywood/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=Elle India|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
Latif's filmography included credits for casting and production.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Seher Latif|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3293454/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=IMDb}} {{unreliable?|date=June 2022}}</ref>

=== Casting ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Project
!Role
!Year
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Television'''
|-
|''[[Outsourced (TV series)|Outsourced]]''
|Additional casting
|2006
|-
|''Bollywood Hero''
|Casting (India - 3 episodes)
|2009
|-
|''The Good Karma Hospital''
|Casting (6 episodes)
|2017
|-
|''[[Sense8]]''
|Casting (20 episodes)
|2015-2017
|-
|''McMafia''
|Casting (5 episodes)
|2018
|-
|''[[Bhaag Beanie Bhaag]]''
|Casting director (6 episodes)
|2020
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Film'''
|-
|''[[Eat Pray Love]]''
|Casting (India)
|2010
|-
|''[[Save Your Legs!]]''
|Casting (India)
|2012
|-
|''[[Zero Dark Thirty]]''
|Casting (India)
|2012
|-
|''[[Monsoon Shootout]]''
|Original casting
|2013
|-
|''The Unseen Sequence''
|Casting director
|2013
|-
|''The Lunchbox''
|Casting director
|2013
|-
|''[[The Hundred-Foot Journey (film)|The Hundred Foot Journey]]''
|Casting (India)
|2014
|-
|''[[Million Dollar Arm]]''
|Casting director
|2014
|-
|''Tigers''
|Casting director
|2014
|-
|''[[The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel]]''
|Casting (India)
|2015
|-
|''[[Furious 7]]''
|Casting (India)
|2015
|-
|''[[The Man Who Knew Infinity (film)|The Man Who Knew Infinity]]''
|Casting director
|2015
|-
|''[[Viceroy's House (film)|Viceroy's House]]''
|Casting director
|2017
|-
|''[[Bioscopewala]]''
|Casting director
|2017
|-
|''Noblemen''
|Casting director
|2018
|-
|''[[Line of Descent]]''
|Casting director
|2019
|-
|''[[Maska (2020 film)|Maska]]''
|Casting director
|2020
|-
|''[[Durgamati|Durgamati: The Myth]]''
|Casting director
|2020
|-
|''[[Shakuntala Devi (film)|Shakuntala Devi]]''
|Casting director
|2020
|}

=== Production ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Project
!Role
!Year
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Television'''
|-
|''Messy''
|Co-Producer
|2020
|-
|''Untitled''
|Executive Producer (9 episodes)
|2020
|-
|''[[Bhaag Beanie Bhaag]]''
|Executive Producer (6 episodes)
|2020
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Film'''
|-
|''Taala Aur Chabi''
|Producer
|2010
|-
|''Masterchef''
|Producer
|2014
|-
|''GOLD''
|Executive Producer
|2018
|-
|''[[Noblemen (film)|Noblemen]]''
|Executive Producer
|2018
|-
|''[[Maska (2020 film)|Maska]]''
|Producer
|2020
|-
|[[Shakuntala Devi (film)|''Shakuntala Devi'']]
|Producer
|2020
|}

== Personal life ==
Her alma mater was [[Mater Dei School, New Delhi]]. Latif died at the age of 39 in [[Mumbai]] on 7 June 2021.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The film ''[[Monkey Man (film)|Monkey Man]]'', which she cast, is dedicated to her.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-07 |title=Sikandar Kher: Seher Latif looked out for me |url=https://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/bollywood-news/article/A-surprise-birthday-bash-for-Jimmy-Shergill-on-his-film-sets-23195499 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=Mid-day |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Indian women film producers]]

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