Lakshmi Bharadwaj

Biography

Lakshmi Bharadwaj is a recognized stage and film actor active from the year(s) 2015-present. She made her first film appearance in the Kannada music video Endu Helada Maatu for singer Santosh Tumnar (2015). She is known for her lead female roles in Telugu feature film Vasantha Sameeram (2018) and Kannada feature film Vedanti (2018). She has appeared in Tamil short film Kaalam which was screened at Bay Area Fine Arts (BAFA) film festival, a Telugu language featurette Geethanjali (2019) for which she also composed the music (Selection, Hyderabad-Bengali Film Festival 2019, Florence Indian Film Festival 2019 and New Generations Short Film Festival 2019), and a short “Meera” for the 48 hour film project (2018). She was the lead actor of the SOIL films social-impact short on domestic abuse titled Crossing The Waters (2019), in support of the NGO Narika. Lakshmi has lent her voice for National Award winning filmmaker OP Srivastava’s documentary on Alzheimer’s Disease titled I Don’t Miss Him (2017). She has previously served as a Radio Jockey for Radio Zindagi in the year 2013. Her work in English theatre includes Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like A Man (2015) and Girish Karnad’s Wedding Album (2017) presented by Bay Area Drama Company. In 2016, she essayed the role of Chitralekhe in Kannada troupe Bannadavesha’s stage production of Girish Karnad’s Yayati, with repertory performances in the year 2017 at Dallas, TX. She has been active on the stage as the lead female protagonist (Mallika) of Aashadada Ondu Dina (2018) and as Ranju in Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Wade Triology (2019). Most recently, she was a character in “A Figment” staged as part of the Veritas Theatre Festival presented by the Graduate Student collective at Harvard University (2019). Her first EP, written for and produced with The Objektz Band and filmed by Devvrat Mishra (MFA) is in post-production for a music video track. Her next Telugu feature film, Gatham (2020) is currently in post-production.