Indian actress and singer

Vasundhara Das (born 27 October 1977) is an Indian actress and singer.

Vasundhara's films include Hey Ram (Tamil/Hindi), Monsoon Wedding (English), Citizen (Tamil), Ravana Prabhu (Malayalam), Lankesh Patrike (Kannada) and several others. Vasundhara has worked with composers such as A. R. Rahman, Vijaya Bhaskar, Yuvan Shankar Raja and G. V. Prakash *ar.

Vasundhara's current focus is on music composition at her Bangalore-based studio, The Active. She has also been involved in several independent projects such as Channel V Jammin', BBC's HIV awareness anthem for India 'Har Kadam', Mission Ustaad, Arya, Global Rhythms, Nylon Soundz and most recently, The Shah Hussain Project, a collaborative album with Sufi singer Mir Mukhtiyar Ali.

She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil for the film Mudhalvan

Contents

• 1 Personal life
• 2 Career
  • 2.1 Acting
  • 2.2 Music
• 3 Filmography
• 4 Discography
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Personal life

She was born into a Hebbar Iyengar family on 27 October 1977 in Bangalore, Karnataka and studied at Cluny Convent High School, Bangalore, Sri Vidya Mandir, Bangalore and Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, graduating in economics, Statistics and Mathematics. She began training in Hindustani cl*ical music under her grandmother Indira Das and later trained under Lalita Kaikini and Pandit Parameshwar Hegde.

In her college days, she was a lead singer of a girl band and was soprano in the college choir. In an interview, she states that – "I got booed off the first time I sang on stage". She speaks Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, English, Malayalam, Hindi and Spanish. In 2012, Vasundhara married her long-time friend, Roberto Narain, a drummer.

Career

Acting

Das Live in a Concert

In 1999, Vasundhara began acting with Kamal Haasan in the film Hey Ram. She played the lead actress alongside Mohanlal in the Malayalam movie Raavana Prabhu, with Ajith *ar in the Tamil movie Citizen and with Darshan in the Kannada movie Lankesh Patrike. She also starred in Mira Nair's movie Monsoon Wedding.

Music

She worked with playback singing career with A. R. Rahman's Tamil film Mudhalvan, for which she sang the song "Shakalaka Baby", and thereby winning the Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Award 2001. She has a French single out in France called L'ete Indien in collaboration with Paris-based Agrumes Studio. She was a founding member of Arya, a world music band that has performed in Europe and America and broke up in 2004.

Filmography

Discography

References

External links

• Vasundhara Das at IMDb