Vishakha Singh is an Indian film actress and producer.
She appeared in South Indian language films, before starring in Bollywood
projects with Oscar nominee director Ashutosh Gowariker's 2010 period piece
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone.
She was nominated for Best Breakthrough Performance of the Year in 2010, for the
same role by StarDust Awards. She also works as a part time venture
capitalist in her father's company based out of London and Dubai. She is a
frequent figure on the Red Carpet at the Cannes Film Festival and was part of the
producers workshop at the Festival de Cannes in 2014. Vishakha has been
invited to be on the jury of one of Rome's biggest film festivals for
independent Italian and European filmmakers, Rome Independent Film
Festival on May 2015. Career
She did her schooling from Abu Dhabi Indian School and Delhi Public School.
She completed her graduation in business studies from Delhi University. She said
that she wanted to be a teacher and did her post graduation in advertising and
public relations. She started modelling in 2007 and appeared in many television
and print commercials. She made her feature film debut with a Telugu film
Gnaapakam in 2008, which did not do well. After that, she starred in one
Tamil, and two Kannada films, 'Antaraatma' and 'Housefull'.
She made her Hindi film debut with Hum Se Jahan, which was never released on
DVD and only in theatres, in 2008. However she got noticed in director
Ashutosh Gowarikar's Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey for which she received a "Best
Breakthrough Performance – Female" nomination from Stardust Awards. She
acted in Abhijeet Sengupta's Do Aur Do Paanch, which did not release.
In 2012 Vishakha ventured into film production by co-producing Peddlers, a
film directed by Vasan Bala. The other producers were Guneet Monga and Anurag
Kashyap Films. Peddlers was selected at the critic week at the Cannes Film
Festival., She has also co produced Haraamkhor, directed by Shlok Sharma,
with Guneet Monga and AKFPL. The film is set to release in 2015. After three
years she made a comeback to acting in Tamil films. Vishakha's second Tamil
film Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya released on 13 January 2013 and which went onto
become the first blockbuster of the Tamil film industry in that year. Back
in Bollywood she signed on three films that released in succession in 2013. Her
first two films were Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani's Fukrey and Vikram
Bhatt's Ankur Arora Murder Case both the films released on 14 June 2013. Her
third film was director Shahant Shah's Bhajathe Raho which released the next
month. She said that Fukrey made a lot of difference and changed people's
perceptions and that she turned down nine films after Fukrey.
Vishakha also made her Malayalam debut in director Rajesh Pillai's forthcoming
film Motorcycle Diaries, and her next Tamil film is with Vaaliba Raja, with
the same team that worked on Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya. She returns to Telugu
films with Rowdy Fellow, opposite Nara Rohit and has stated that she plays "a
girl who looks like an angel but is a devil in disguise". She is also acting
in The Maya Tape, a horror thriller, directed by Nikhil Alag, in which she
plays a journalist. She was signed for an important role in the film, albeit a
cameo role, in R. Kannan's Oru Oorla Rendu Raja.
Filmography References
External links Vishakha Singh at the Internet Movie
Database Vishakha Singh on Facebook
Vishakha Singh on Twitter ´I Am A Maverick´ – Vishakha Singh,
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