A DREAMER and A LOVER!

Tinat Atifa Masood is a writer by choice, an actor for fun and a dreamer by default. She has never had a moment of boredom in her life. She has worked her way up to where she is now and revels in this glory. Tinat lives for the day and says that all this while, life has been one big party for her. She loves life and lives for the day, ‘taking one day at a time’.

Tinat just loves to write, write and write. Though writing is her craze, yet acting has and always will be her first love. Her school, Loreto Convent in Shillong had honed her talents as an actor. Her passion for theatre has made her the “Best Actress” in college. And even now, with several demanding roles on the Guwahati stage, she says, “When on stage, I feel like a King”. She has acted in several movies, the most recent being “You are not my Julie”, directed by National Award winning film-maker, N. Mani Ram.

Tinat has a poetry book to her name titled 10:20; a compilation of random thoughts. This book encapsulates some of her feelings about certain casual topics that had caught her interest as a young girl.

With the birth of her baby, Tirus in 2006, Tinat is even more inspired to write. She gifted him “Adventures of Tirus”, a childrens’ story book with three stories, on his second birthday. With Tirus as her inspiration, Tinat is coming up with the second part of Adventures of Tirus and her Krishna Kavitas very soon. She is also trying her hand at writing Assamese poetry.

Tinat is also a documentary film-maker and has some really good productions to her name on subjects like tourism, poultry, health, endemic variety of tea, biodiversity hotspots of Assam, et al. Her documentary on tea titled “The Brew of the eastern Clouds” had been invited to the MIFF, 2008 and to the Stuttgart Film Festival, Bollywood and Beyond in Germany in 2008. This particular documentary has also been screened at the Northeast Filmfeast in Guwahati in 2009. Her documentary film-making career has associated her with the Prasar Bharati, Ministry of Panchayati Raj and Films Division, Mumbai.

With twenty four years of anchoring behind her, Tinat, initially a shy teenager, says she has acquired her skills as a communicator from all the interesting occurrences in her eventful life. Her work as an anchor takes her to places like Delhi, Bihar and Kolkata and now as a resource person of Oxford University Press, which she says she enjoys a lot, she gets to meet a lot of people, especially children and teachers. She has trained teachers and students in places like Bhagalpur, Begusarai, Samastipur, Ranchi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Jorhat, Tongla and Nagaon.

Tinat is a member of the Rotary International, which believes in putting people first. Her love for giving back to the society has encouraged her to start an NGO with a friend called the Consortium of International Minds, where she reaches out to young people to mould them to be more globalised and also counsels their mothers. Her NGO has the vision to bring about a sea-change of positive thoughts in the world. 

She has been a panel member of the Film Certification Board of India for three years.

Tinat loves to travel and loves to write about her escapades! She is an active blogger and has nine blogs to her name, one dedicated to her state of Assam.

She considers herself to be lucky to have been part of a four member team going to Canada in 2004 where she portrayed the exotic nuances of the country and her state by way of talks, dances and songs. This was sponsored by the Rotary International under their Group Study Exchange(GSE) programme.

Recently, her being crowned as the Indian Icon 2013, has increased her responsibilities towards the city, her state, her region, the country and the world as a whole. Tinat cherishes every moment of her life and toasts to it!