Vasundhara Das

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Vasundhara Das

Vasundhara Das (born 1978) is an Indian actress and singer. She began acting with the Kamal Hasan film Hey Ram (1999) and her playback singing career began when she worked with A. R. Rahman for the Tamil-language film Mudhalvan. Vasundhara Das has also recorded her own album of non-film songs, and sung in French, English, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi.

She has founded a musical band named Arya with Roberto Narain. The band comprises of musicians from various backgrounds in music, ranging from Hindustani and Karnatic classical music to jazz, Latin, rock and pop. Arya’s music can be broadly classified as World Music. Arya’s first performance was at the prestigious festival La Mar de Musicas, in Spain in 2003. The band performed a tour in the United States of America in September 2004. Roberto Narian plays the drums and she provides the western and the Indian vocals.

1 Filmography
2 Music Influences
3 Fact File
4 External links

[edit] Filmography

Hey Ram(1999), Tamil & Hindi
Monsoon Wedding (2000), Hindi
Citizen (2001, Tamil)
Ravana Prabhu (2001, Malayalam)
Lankesh Patrike (2002, Kannada)
Filmstar (2003, Hindi)
Pathar Bezubaan (2004, Hindi)
Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamaana (2004-05, Hindi)
Eik Dastak (2004-05, Hindi)

[edit] Music Influences

Hindustani Classical
Ghazal
Choral
English
Fusion
Rock and Funk
Spanish

[edit] Fact File

She began training in Hindustani Classical music since the age of six.
Vasundhara is a polyglot who knows Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, English, a bit of Malayalam and Spanish.
She is an Economics and Maths graduate.
She has sung a song in Lagaan for the British character played by Rachel Shelley.
She used to run away from home to avoid taking music lessons.
In her college days, she was part of an all-girl band.
She was almost chosen heroine by Mani Rathnam for 'Alaipayuthey' opposite R. Madhavan.
She can do the Flamenco strums on her guitar.
To her family, she is known as Lovely.
She was born in a Hebbar Iyengar family.