Divya Palat
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Divya Palat is an Award winning Producer and Director for theatre plays like -"A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks" and was a Hindi
actress who has done many films such as Masti with Vivek Oberoi, Dhund with Apurva Agnihotri, Kuch Naa Kaho
with Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan, Krishna Cottage
with Sohail Khan, Dil Bechara Pyaar Ka Mara with actress Mallika Kapoor
. She is from the royal family of Cochin State. Her great grand father built the Durbar Hall in Cochin and the Town Hall in Trichur and it was during his time that the roads to Munnar, Trichur and Chittur were constructed and macadamised. Her other great grandfather Mr. R. M. Palat was a Minister under self government. Apart from this her other relatives include diplomats (K. P. S. Menon, P. A Menon), Generals (Lt. Gen. Candeth, Brigadier Sankaran Nair), Privy Councillors (Sir C. Madhavan Nair) and others.
As her father was periodically transferred, Divya studied in schools in Mumbai, New York and in Delhi. After completing her schooling she went to Stanford in California before returning to India. In India, she began her acting career in a TV series Captain Vyom. Prior to this she had acted in several plays including Sound of Music and Legend of Ram.
In early 2000s she set up a Production Company, "Balancing Act Productions" that has produced several highly acclaimed plays including the Award winning " A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks", "The Verdict", "The Graduate" "Love Bytes", "Starring U & Me!"and "The Wizard of Oz".
In 2006 she began making short films and teaching short films. She has also branched out into Hindi plays.
She wrote a play based on the survivors of the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks entitled 'A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks.' This play was ranked among the top 3 plays at the Edinburgh Fringe festival '08 from among over 35,600 plays and she was awarded the Top Honours for Outstanding direction at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2010.
Palat travels extensively. She is devoted to her cocker spaniel Cookie. She spends her spare time stopping her husband watching Manchester United with her husband Aditya Hitkari. She is also into travelling and visits exotic destinations periodically. She loves adventure sports and is an avid bungee jumper, water skier, parachutist and white water rafter. She has swam with sharks, sat on elephants and ridden on dolphins.
She has a sister Nikhila Palat who is married to well known television and movie actor Vivaan Bhatena
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
actress who has done many films such as Masti with Vivek Oberoi, Dhund with Apurva Agnihotri, Kuch Naa Kaho
Kuch Naa Kaho
Kuch Naa Kaho is an Indian Bollywood movie, directed by Rohan Sippy, starring Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan and Arbaaz Khan...
with Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan, Krishna Cottage
Krishna Cottage
Krishna Cottage is a 2004 Bollywood Horror film directed by the debuting Santram Varma. It was produced by the mother-daughter team of Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor, better known for producing Indian television soap operas, and starred Sohail Khan, Anita Hassanandani, and Ishaa Koppikar in the...
with Sohail Khan, Dil Bechara Pyaar Ka Mara with actress Mallika Kapoor
Mallika Kapoor
Mallika Kapoor is an Indian film actress, working in the South Indian film industries.-Biography:Kapoor was raised in a middle-class Punjabi family. Her father works in the merchant navy and her mother is a housewife.-Career:...
. She is from the royal family of Cochin State. Her great grand father built the Durbar Hall in Cochin and the Town Hall in Trichur and it was during his time that the roads to Munnar, Trichur and Chittur were constructed and macadamised. Her other great grandfather Mr. R. M. Palat was a Minister under self government. Apart from this her other relatives include diplomats (K. P. S. Menon, P. A Menon), Generals (Lt. Gen. Candeth, Brigadier Sankaran Nair), Privy Councillors (Sir C. Madhavan Nair) and others.
As her father was periodically transferred, Divya studied in schools in Mumbai, New York and in Delhi. After completing her schooling she went to Stanford in California before returning to India. In India, she began her acting career in a TV series Captain Vyom. Prior to this she had acted in several plays including Sound of Music and Legend of Ram.
In early 2000s she set up a Production Company, "Balancing Act Productions" that has produced several highly acclaimed plays including the Award winning " A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks", "The Verdict", "The Graduate" "Love Bytes", "Starring U & Me!"and "The Wizard of Oz".
In 2006 she began making short films and teaching short films. She has also branched out into Hindi plays.
She wrote a play based on the survivors of the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks entitled 'A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks.' This play was ranked among the top 3 plays at the Edinburgh Fringe festival '08 from among over 35,600 plays and she was awarded the Top Honours for Outstanding direction at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2010.
Palat travels extensively. She is devoted to her cocker spaniel Cookie. She spends her spare time stopping her husband watching Manchester United with her husband Aditya Hitkari. She is also into travelling and visits exotic destinations periodically. She loves adventure sports and is an avid bungee jumper, water skier, parachutist and white water rafter. She has swam with sharks, sat on elephants and ridden on dolphins.
She has a sister Nikhila Palat who is married to well known television and movie actor Vivaan Bhatena