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Aishveryaa Nidhi
(Also credited as Aishverya Nidhi)
Aishveryaa Nidhi is a Sydney-based actor and filmmaker. She was recently nominated for Best Actress Award in Short & sweet, Sydney 2009,the biggest festival of 10 minute plays on the planet, for her powerful performance in Mandragora, written by David Sharpe and directed by Lisa Eismen.
She is the Associate Producer of the 2006 Hollywood drama-mystery Beyond Life. More recently, she has co-directed the Aussie-Bollywood flick Flight to Bollywood.
Aish is also actively involved in popularising Indian theatre in Western countries. As the Artistic Director of Sydney-based group, Abhinay Theatre, Aish has produced and acted in immensely popular theatre productions, such as Gandhari (solo performance), Kuntiputra Karna and Hamare Padosi.
Aishverya Nidhi with Arvind Gaur, Deepak Dobrial,Nandini and
others in Log Baag .
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Aish’s Journey
Theatre
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Acted in Felino Dolllso's 'Let's shoot Max instead!, (Play),directed by Kirsty Kiloh,musical interpretation and soundscape by Kiran pradhan,production assistant Tanya Dickson & Heidi Lupprian.Cast included John Lam,Shireen Anne Magsalin, Carlos Sivalingam & Lara Lightfoot as part of Short & Sweet,
Week 2 at NIDA, PARADE PLAYHOUSE.l
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Acted in David Sharpe's Mandragora (play) (directed by Lisa Eismen, co-starring Kieran Foster, Susan Stapleton and Leanne Zaccar) for Short+Sweet, Sydney 2009, Top 100 Category, Newtown Theatre, Week 1.Reached Gala Finals of Short+Sweet Festival, Sydney 2009, York Theatre, Seymour Centre, 20th and 21st Feb. Mandragora is an intriguing play dealing with emotions of a young man, recovering from aftershocks of causing a serious car accident.
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Aish was nominated for Best Actress Award, Short+Sweet, Sydney 2009 for Mandragora. The play got two more nominations, Best Drama script for David Sharpe and "Alex Broun Award for New Talent" for David Sharpe.
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Acted in writer and director Elizabeth Warning's touching play Almost boiling, (play) presented by Somesortawarning productions (co-starring Cheryl Khurana, Yong Won Suh and Peter Irving Smith) for Short+Sweet 2009,Top 100 Category at Seymour Centre, Downstairs (Week 1). The play explores the battle between Anne Stone and her adult daughter Leah as they face the dark realities that come with an unexpected terminal diagnosis in a public hospital.
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Kuntiputra Karna (play) which she produced and acted in along with her son Shourya Nidhi. Directed by Arvind Gaur, it is inspired from the tragic life and times of Karna, son of Kunti and God Surya.
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Hamare Padosi (play) which she produced and acted in. Credited for promoting local Indian theatre talent, the play featured over 20 aspiring actors from the Indian community based in Sydney. The play was directed by Arvind Gaur.
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Gandhari (play) is a 60-minute solo-performance which was first staged at one of Sydney's most respected venues, NIDA Theatre, in July 2005. Produced by Aishveryaa and directed by Arvind Gaur. Done repeat shows in Sydney and was also invited to perform in Melbourne on South Asia Day on 9th August 2008. Gandhari is one of the tragic characters of Mahabharata, the great Indian mythological epic and is very relevant to the contemporary socio- political context. She was born a princess, but was forced to marry a blind man, Dhritrashtra, who was much older to her. Gandhari is story of Mahabharata from Gandhari's eyes.
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Langdi Taang (play): Actor. Directed by Prof. Devendra Raj Ankur of National School of Drama (NSD) India. Technical Direction was by Prof. Suresh Bhardwaj of NSD and Costume Designing by Ass Prof. Hema Singh of NSD.
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Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (play): Scriptwriter. The play was written for ASMITA, Theatre group. It was selected as the Best Play of the Year 2001, by SKP (Sahitya Kala Parishad) Critics Committee.
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The Racing Demon (play): Actor. The play was produced in New Zealand by Pilgrim Productions, directed by Royston Brown and written by David Hare.
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Acted in Mahesh Dattani's TARA, directed by Arvind Gaur-adjudged Best Play of the Year 2000, by SKP Critics Committee, India.
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She performed at the National School of Drama's annual festival, Rang
Mahotsav in 2000.
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In 2000, she conducted a production-based workshop for slum children called Woman (Aurat).
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Acted in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor -Adjudged Best Play of the Year 1999, by SKP Critics Committee.
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Acted in Bertolt Breckht’s The Good Woman of Schezwan (Kanpur ki aurat bhali, Ramkali), directed by Arvind Gaur - Adjudged Best Play of the Year 1998, by SKP Critics Committee
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Acted in Ashok Lal's Ek Mamooli Aadmi, directed by Arvind Gaur
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Acted in Mahesh Dattani's The Final Solutions, directed by Arvind Gaur
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Acted in Swadesh Deepak's Court Martial, directed by Arvind Gaur
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Acted in Director Ranjit Kapoor's Ek Ghoda Cheh Sawar.
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Acted in Kaag-Panth, a National School of Drama production.
Films & Television
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Acted is CROSSROADS, a short film, directed by Neeraj Verma
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Acted in Punjabi Bollywood film Virsa, directed by Pankaj Batra. Starring Arya Babbar, Mehru Rheal, Gulshan Grover and Kanwaljeet Singh.
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Acted in Yash Chopra's Bollywood film Trouble with Raj (Bachna Ae Haseeno) directed by Siddharth Anand, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone.
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Flight to Bollywood (film): Producer & Director.
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Acted in 21st Conspiracy, a series directed by Steve Anthopoulous.
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Beyond Life (Film) USA, Actor and Associate Producer, Directed by Navanil Das.
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She worked with Sally Spenser Harris (of RADA) in Auckland, New Zealand, and acted in a
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