Our special guest for the master class this weekend – Suchitra Krishnamoorthi
Date:- 21st November
Time:- 11:30 am
Suchitra Krishnamoorthi is an Indian actress, writer, painter and singer.
She was a successful model endorsing products such as Palmolive soap, Sunrise Coffee, Limca and Colgate toothpaste.
She started her acting career with the TV series Chunauti and made her breakthrough in films with Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, a commercial and critically acclaimed hit opposite Shahrukh Khan. She also stared opposite Anil Kapoor in my wife’s Murder, Mittal v/s Mittal ,Jazbat,Rann and many more.
She simultaneously pursued a music career in the mid- to late 1990s, releasing the pop albums Dole Dole, Dum Tara, Aha and Zindagi, whose title track was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with the rest composed by Himesh Reshammiya.
Suchitra is a classically trained vocalist in the Gwalior gharana style of Indian classical music. She studied the art form for over ten years.
She is an accomplished poet and painter, having trained in India, London and New York.
She has exhibited her paintings in galleries across India and around the globe.
Suchitra’s first novel, The Summer of Cool, was released by Penguin India in January 2009 and met with huge success. It is her first in four called the Swapnalok Society series based on the ethos of growing up in a typical co-operative housing society in Mumbai, this genre and these stories have struck a chord with young urban Indians.The second book in the series is called The Good News Reporter and was well received. The third part of the series “The Ghost on the Ledge” was released in 2016.
An entrepreneur in September 2012, Suchitra launched The Candlelight Company specializing in therapeutic organic candles for wellness.
Drama Queen a musical play written by Suchitra adapted from her book Drama Queen opened at “NCPA” Mumbai in October 2016.Drama Queen the stage play is currently playing successfully all over India.
