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'''Clare Mendonça''' (1910–1953) was a prominent film journalist in India, whose film reviews had a large readership. After her early death, she was honoured when the Clare Award, now the Filmfare Award, was instituted in 1954.<ref name="IndiaCinemaWiki">{{Cite web|title=Clare Mendonça|url=https://wiki.indiancine.ma/wiki/Clare%20Mendonca|access-date=6 December 2020|website=Indiancine.ma Wiki}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Mendonça was a film critic with the ''Evening News of India'' newspaper, the evening partner of the ''Times of India'' Group around 1931, and later with ''The Times of India'' from 1933 to 1953.<ref name="IndiaCinemaWiki" /><br />
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==Family==<br />
Her family members included siblings Msgr Filipe Neri de Mendonça, Padre Guilherme de Mendonça and Frederico Mendonça.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clare de Mendonça|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Clare-de-Mendon%C3%A7a/6000000010170231013|access-date=6 December 2020|website=Geni}}</ref> Fr. Felipe Neri Mendonça was an outstanding educationist and a strict disciplinarian, principal from 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title="Padriponn" (Priesthood) - Part 4 (Final)|url=https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg10428.html|author=Domnic Fernandes|date=16 March 2007|access-date=6 December 2020|via=The Mail Archive}}</ref><br />
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==Education, posts==<br />
Mendonça graduated from [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|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]].<ref name="IndiaCinemaWiki" /><br />
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Mendonça also wrote popular weekend film reviews in ''The Times of India'' Sunday supplement.<ref name="IndiaCinemaWiki" /><br />
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==Award named==<br />
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.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Filmfare Awards: Lesser known facts|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/photo-features/filmfare-awards-lesser-known-facts/photostory/45953096.cms|access-date=6 December 2020|work=The Times of India}}</ref> She has been called "one of the earliest film journalists in India".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Weekend Quiz : Guess who is she, and her significance in Indian Film Industry?|url=https://twitter.com/p1j/status/581728913971236865|access-date=6 December 2020|website=Twitter}}{{rs|date=July 2021}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1910 births]]<br />
[[Category:1953 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indian film critics]]<br />
[[Category:St. Xavier's College, Mumbai alumni]]<br />
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