Sushama Reddy is an Indian

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, VJ, actress and producer.

Early life

Sushama Reddy studied at the

Bombay Scottish School, Mahim The Bombay Scottish School, Mahim (BSS or BSS Mahim), popularly known as Scottish, is a private, Christian co-educational day school located at Mahim West in Mumbai, India. The institution was established in 1847 by Scottish Christian missionar ...

and graduated in Economics from

Mithibai College The Mithibai College of Arts, Chauhan Institute of Science & Amruthben Jivanlal College of Commerce and Economics is a college affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The college was established in 1961 in Vile Parle, Mumbai by Shri Vile Parle ...

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

, India. She completed a filmmaking course from NYFA,

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in the

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. She has two sisters Meghna Reddy, a former model and

Sameera Reddy Sameera Reddy (born 14 December 1978) is a former Indian actress who primarily worked in Hindi films, in addition to Tamil and Telugu language films. Reddy made her film debut with the 2002 film ''Maine Dil Tujhko Diya''. She is best known for ...

, a popular Bollywood actress.

Career

Modeling

Her sister Meghna persuaded her to join the television world. Her first break was given by Bharatbala Productions. She worked on more than 100 television commercials including Limca, Fair & Lovely, Liberty, Godrej, Blender's Pride, Ford Icon and a TV commercial for Thumbs Up with

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. Reddy also appeared in

Sonu Nigam Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian singer, music director and actor. He has been described in the media as one of the most popular and successful playback singers of Hindi Cinema and Kannada Cinema. He has been honoured by the Govern ...

's music video ''Deewana'' with

Diwakar Pundir Diwaker Pundir (born 11 November 1975 in Hyderabad) is an Indian actor in Bollywood and a model. He has won the title of Graviera Mister India Grasim Mr. India (''formerly Adonis - Graviera Man of the Year'') was a national male beauty pagea ...

, in

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's ''Tere Jaisa Pyaar'' and

Sona Mohapatra Sona Mohapatra (born 17 June 1976) is an Indian singer, music composer and lyricist. In addition to her own material, Mohapatra has recorded remixes of songs by David Bowie, with " Let's Dance", and INXS, with "Afterglow", with the latter provin ...

's music compilation ''Ishq Nachaya''.

Hosting

Soon after

Channel V Channel '' ("V" standing for the letter, not the Roman numeral "5") is a Chinese and former Asian pay television musical network originally launched by Star TV Hong Kong (now Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific). It was part of the unit of Disney ...

was launched in India, she landed the role of a VJ at the music channel for more than 2 years. Sushama hosted Dream Hotels on the Lifestyle broadcaster

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, showcasing the vistas, luxurious living, décor, style and glitter of hotels uncovering high living in the truest form.

Acting

Sushama made her film debut opposite

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with Vivek Agnihotri's '' Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets'' in 2005 and later appeared in '' Don: The Chase Begins Again'' and ''

Chup Chup Ke ''Chup Chup Ke'' () is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Priyadarshan. Originally titled ''Khatta Meetha'', it is adapted from Malayalam film ''Punjabi House'' (1998). The film stars Shahid Kapoor (Kismat Konnection), ...

'', with

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and

Kareena Kapoor Kareena Kapoor Khan (; ''née'' Kapoor; born 21 September 1980) is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood, Hindi films. She is the daughter of actors Randhir Kapoor and Babita, and the younger sister of actress Karisma Kapoor. Noted for pl ...

(both in 2006).

Producing and filmmaking

In 2008, Sushama assisted

Rajat Kapoor Rajat Kapoor (born 11 February 1961) is an Indian actor, filmmaker and playwright who works in Hindi cinema. Kapoor was born in Delhi, India. He mainly focused on acting at first. In 2013 he joined the theatre group Chingari in Delhi, later mov ...

on his project ''Rectangular Love story''. In 2009, she was introduced to current producing partner Sanjay Bhattacharjee through a common friend. After realizing that they had common goals related to the filmmaking business, distribution and film marketing, they met Aryan Bros. from Delhi, who at that time were also seeking to get into the film industry. In June 2009, with funding from Aryan Bros., Reddy and Bhattacharjee established the production company Seven Island Studios Pvt. Ltd. Seven Island and Aryan Bros' ''

Dus Tola ''Dus Tola'' (English:''Ten units'') is a 2010 Indian Hindi comedy drama film remake of 1988 Malayalam film '' Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu'', directed by Ajoy Varma and starring Manoj Bajpayee in the lead role. ''Dus Tola'' was released on 22 Octobe ...

'' went on the floors in late 2009, and was released on 22 October 2010. They are now working on her next projects – ''National Roaming'', which is a comic-caper, ''The Stamp Collector'', which is based on Vishwapriya Iyenger's short story ''No Letter From Mother'' and another one based on a Tibetan family's struggle for survival. Work is underway on the next film, tentatively titled ''National Roaming'', which is a crazy comic caper in the jungle. Sushama has started her own television production company, Niki Redi Productions and is developing content for travel shows on international Lifestyle channels such as TLC. She has also produced and anchored her show on TLC called ''Go India Maharashtra'', which was telecast in December 2012.

Filmography

Actor

Producer

References

External links

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Sushama Reddy Fan Page
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