scripted characters

Name
Age
City
Sketch
Notes
Dharam Uberoi
23
Delhi
Short Filmmaker
Dharam’s father runs a large – ish company from a office in Noida. He is a mass communication student. He has made 5 2 mins short films till date which are well appreciated. Speaks Hindi and English and a shade of Punjabi . He is a very colorful personality but mostly wears denims and t shirts with a photographer’s jacket.
He is a hyper active go getter, with a pleasing personality. He has a girlfriend but does not yet believe in loyalty. Loves bollywood also looks at a lot of experimental theatre.


Raman Kumar
26
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Poet
Raman is a poet by profession. Has done M.A. in literature. He writes poems in local newspapers and magazines. He is also upcoming poet in the Mushairas. He is also involved in taking private tuition classes. His father is dead and mother is a housewife. He is the only son and earns enough to be comfortable.
Though slightly shy Raman has a deep desire is to live in fame and recognition.






Riya Menon
23
Delhi
Skit writer
A recent pass out from the National School of Drama, Riya writes skits with a flair for political satire. She is very sharp and socially aware. She was deep into extracurricular activities during her college days.
Her father lives in Dubai and mother is a housewife. Her elder sister is a journalist and works for Times of India.


Subhash Gurung
21
Darjling
Photographer
Subhash dropped out of school and since then has travelled most parts of India . His passion is photography and he enjoys flairs for Nature photography and Street photography. Constantly travels and works from a small studio in Darjling.
He is a very fun loving guy. His parents are into farming. His only brother works in Mumbai.

Name




Madurima Pandit
22
Mumbai
Graphic Designing
She just graduated from Symbiosis college Pune. Recently working as a graphic designer in a fast growing ad agency.
She stays along with her parents in Mumbai. Her only brother is into Marketing. Her father works in Medical company. Her mother works in a bank. She is passionate about animation, and is also a movie buff.

Akansha Jadav
27
Banglore
Graphic Designing
Akansha is NID pass out. She works in one of the top graphic designing company in Bangalore. She is a computer wizard. As per her she is into designing by default and not by design. She wanted to anything else but her father’s business. She is married. She wants to launch her own designing studio soon.
She often disappears to the Himalayas.


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Age
City
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Sumakshi Vargese
25
Kochin
Photography
She is into wild life photography. She has no formal education in photography, started as a hobby and now it has become a profession. Works for wild life magazine and does free lancing as well. Her father is in Army and her mother is house wife. She is very brave and bold more of a soldier like her father.

Sharda Patvardhan
19
Chennai
Performer
Sharda is popular as theatre artist in Chennai and got the best award for the new come of the year. Her father too is a theatre personality…who juggles between his banking job and love for theatre. Her mother is a house. Sharda has a special knack for establishing a relationship with the audience.
She has attached to a theatre company in Chennai and in future plans to work in exploring traditional forms of theatre and using them in contemporary practice.


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Age
City
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Anil Khanna
25
Hydrabad
Graphic Designer
Anil is presently freelancing for film and television industry in South. His father works as an art director in films. His mother is a house wife. He is quite out going and fun loving guy . Has been into graphic designing since last five years. He enjoys his job and is workaholic.
On the notice board of his work station has printouts of alternative campaigns he designs in his freetime. His girlfiend works in the same office.

Francis Gonsalvis
21
Pune
Graphic Designer
He is still studying and is very new into graphic design field. Presently learning graphic design in college. Does his own designing stuff at home. His mother is a doctor and father a businessman.
he also likes designs costumes for intra college fashion shows and loves to cook.


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Age
City
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Kabir Mahadevan
22
Allahbad
Poet+ Play write
He is doing his masters in Hindi Literature and the Allahabad University. His father is a professor of geography and mother a teacher . He is brilliant in poetry and has published one book on his poems and highly appreciated. He writes for youth. He wants come into politics after some time. His hobby is reading …he loves reading biographies.

Steffeny Loungkumar
21
Shillong
Filmmaking
Steffeni studies anthropology at the NEHU and loves tribal literature. She hails from kohima and has come to shillong for her education. .
The youngest in a large family, she is very pampered. socially very active she uses video film making to tell abstract narratives Writes well. Her father is a farmer businessman and mother is a writer.


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Age
City
Sketch
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Kunal Kaushik
24
Rohtak, Haryana
Performer
Kunal works in an NGO but he is a very good actor. Performs skits all around India bringing social awareness. Very active in development. His dream is to learn performance art from Habib Tanvir and travel with his troupe. His patents own large farmlands and don’t really understand their son’s passion .
His brother is a hockey player.

Vivek Shah
23
Baroda, Gujarat
Film making
He is a multi talented. He loves making short films. He does his own camera and edits his own stuff. He has been a fine arts student as well. If not making films, he is painting. He is extremely shy and married to his childhood sweetheart. His father was a great writer from Gujarat and his mother is a school teacher. His brother works in Mumbai.


Sukhdev Singh
22
Delhi
Graphic Design
A new kid on the block. He thinks he is the next star in advertising. Studied for 2 years in New York and takes it too seriously…too much attitude.
But has undeniable talent…he is a rock star.

Kuldeep Kumar
27
Bhillai, M.P.
Photographer
Works at a managerial level in the Bhillai steel Plant. He writes columns in news paper and always carries a camera with him. He is popularly known as “Camera Man” by his friends. His photographs are real and sensitive, catches real faces when they are not watching him. Many awards in his kitty. Married and have a kid.

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Age
City
Sketch
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Sanjay Singh
25
Muzzafarpur
Film maker
He loves making films on wild life. Wanted to be a professor but could not clear the NET exams. Then started working as an assistant in documentary films. Has made 2 short films. Apart from film maker, he is a good a speaker too. His brother and father have cloth business. He is very intelligent and confident young man.

Rekha Roy
31
Mumbai
Photographer
Slightly understated, but a great fashion photographer. She belongs to a family where every member is into photography. She is the only one to take it up as profession .
She is increasing moving towards more experimental photography and is looking for a horizontal leap.


Name
Age
City
Sketch
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Shilpa Menon
17
Chennai
Film maker
She is still studying in film school. Extremely good with technology, she is the master of editing and mixing. Very outgoing girl…seems very relaxed but always thinking. Her parents are into service industry.
After her +2 she wants to study at the shrishti school of design

Amisha Sachdev
28
Bangalore
Photographer
Amisha works in news channels. She also does free lancing for most of the leading daily newspapers. She has some rare collection of photographs. She is still single. Loves outdoors. Shoots whatever she finds interesting.


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Age
City
Sketch
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Dhiraj Brahmbhat
32
Mumbai
Painter
An ex student from the JJ School of Arts, Dhiraj is deeply interested in the painting the urban facets of contemporary India. He has had a couple of exhibitions but is still relatively un known. Dhiraj is on the verge of going to London to study at the St Martins.
What sets him apart is his flair for graffiti…


Salma Khatun
20
Srinagar
Painter
Salma is an extremely confident girl hailing from a conservative family. Innocent and fun loving, Salma is studing at the srinagar Art college. Though a student in the sculpture department, salma loves painting…especially just playing with bright colours.
She is a big fan of Raja Ravi Varma, and one day wants to travel all of India to see his paintings.
She has a boy friend who is also a senior student in the same college



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Age
City
Sketch
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Chinmoyee Patel
22
Aanand, Gujarat
Painter :
belonging to a very affluent family, chinmoyee has travelled and sen the world. She dropped out of the Baroda fine Arts college cause she feels no one can define art and teach art.
Chinmoyee loves to work with street kids and and runs a film club for the slum just behind her house.
Currently she is holed in home…just painting

Rajib Mohanty
26
Kokrajhar
Painter
Extremely political in his outlook, rajib has been nearly thrown out of college a couple of times. Has sympathies for the ULFA, but hates violence.
Rajib wants to paint in the style of the local tribes and tell contemporary stories. The police , the army, the militants feature prominently in his narratives.


Anindita Pal
25
Kolkatta
Painter
When anindita graduated from Shantiniketan, she was considered to be the next star…just waiting to explode. Working across mediums, anindita makes large compelling paintings.
She is going through a changeover phase and is getting more and more engrossed with animation.
Her boy friend is an archaeologist. They travel a lot together.