Aarti Bajaj began editing with
Anurag Kashyap's unreleased film
Paanch. She followed it with his controversial and acclaimed film
Black Friday for which she was nominated for a
Star Screen Award in 2008. She has also edited
Reema Kagti's
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., Imtiaz Ali's
Jab We Met, Rockstar, Tamasha, Highway and Rajkumar Gupta's
Aamir, for which she was nominated for her second
Star Screen Award. Later, she edited Kashyap's
Dev.D,
Gulaal,
Ugly,
Raman Raghav 2.0,
Mukkabaaz,
Sacred Games and
Manmarziyaan. An article on The Hindu describes her as "one of those rare new-age film editors who lets the narrative breathe, supremely confident of her pacing." In the same article, Bajaj describes her process of deciding which film she wants to contribute to. It is true that many of her works are films which are different from what one expects from the average Bollywood movie. She answers in The Hindu interview, "I enjoy mainstream Bollywood, but I don't know if I can edit them. What's the point of doing the same formula again? What do you look forward to? I know I will go brain-dead." She also adds, "I like quirky, I like different." She goes on to emphasise the importance of mental stimulation and how every project she does must present to her some sort of challenge. Her professionalism is such that she only does one project at a time to ensure compete focus. Bajaj has worked on films across different genres, from
Rockstar to
Sacred Games, which demand different editing styles, and has proved herself to be a versatile editor. ==Filmography==