Ayesha Dharker

Ayesha Dharker

Nascimento : 1978-03-16, Bombay, India

História

Ayesha Dharker (born March 16, 1978 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian actress. She is known for her performance in the Tamil Indian film, The Terrorist (1999), for which she was awarded Best Artistic Contribution by an Actress at the Cairo International Film Festival and nominated for a Chlotrudis Award and National Film Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in Hollywood films such as Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and The Mistress of Spices, television series such as Arabian Nights, and the West End and Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ayesha Dharker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Perfil

Ayesha Dharker

Filmes

National Theatre Live: The Book of Dust — La Belle Sauvage
Marisa Coulter
Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.
Meu Pai
Dr. Sarai
Um idoso sofre com as confusões da própria mente e rejeita qualquer ajuda. Enquanto isso, sua filha tenta lidar com a perda do pai que está vivo, mas cada dia mais longe.
Richard II
Aumerle
Beset by problems at home and abroad, a capricious king is forced to relinquish his ‘hollow crown’. As his supporters abandon him and his power trickles away, Richard reflects with startling eloquence on the disintegration of his status and identity. Adjoa Andoh and Lynette Linton direct the first ever company of women of colour in a Shakespeare play on a major UK stage, in a post-Empire reflection on what it means to be British in the light of the Windrush anniversary and as we leave the European Union.
The children trapped in Bangladesh's brothel village
Narrator
Daulatdia is an entire village in Bangladesh dedicated to prostitution. Every day, 1,600 trafficked, enslaved and abandoned women and girls sell themselves for £2 a time. In the midst of the trade live 300 children, many born in the village. Some will be groomed to be the future of the business like their mothers and grandmothers. With education programmes and support provided by Save The Children, a few may find their way out.
RSC Live: Othello
Emilia
Othello is the greatest general of his age. A fearsome warrior, loving husband and revered defender of Venice against its enemies. But he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own, men driven by prejudice and jealousy to destroy him. As they plot in the shadows, Othello realises too late that the greatest danger lies not in the hatred of others, but his own fragile and destructive pride.
Red Alert: The War Within
Radhaka
While delivering food in a forest area in Andhra Pradesh, impoverished Narasimha is held against his will by a band of Naxalites led by Velu, and forced to join them. He is anxious to collect his dues and return home to his wife, Uma; daughter, Chinna; and son, Mohan, but Velu keeps on putting it off. Narasimha gets to know and sympathize with members of this band, and befriends Lakshmi, who was gang-raped by several policemen. He is then asked to prove his loyalty by killing an informant/plainclothes police inspector - which he does - and even accompanies the band on an assault on a school, resulting in the death of some children. Traumatized after this incident, he decides to flee - and it is this decision that will not only estrange him from his family but also force him to be on the run from the band as well as the police.
Jubilee
Rani Mehta
Two members of a right wing political party are on the campaign trail in a housing estate. During the course of a day knocking on doors, it becomes clear they have differing motivations for being there.
Mad Sad & Bad
Roxy
HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary metropolitan neuroses through the intersecting lives of these siblings and their friends. The narrative slips from one character to the next as they escape and attack each other. all reluctant members of the same dysfunctional family. Written by Ed Barratt
Despachado para a Índia
Asha
Um americano, que trabalha como gerente de uma central de atendimento, fica chocado ao saber que a companhia onde trabalha vai fechar, passando a operar da Índia. Incumbido de liderar o processo de transição e treinar o seu substituto em Mubai, ele vai para lá e fica perplexo com a diferença cultural, mas com a ajuda de uma funcionária chamada Asha, ele eventualmente começa a aproximar-se de seus novos colegas e aprende a apreciar as coisas a sua volta.
Loins of Punjab Presents
Opama Menon
A ruthless philantrophist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loin King. Enter a roller-coaster world of seven strangers whose lives collide during a singing contest in a small New Jersey town.
Totalmente Kubrick
Dr Stukeley
Durante as filmagens de 'De Olhos Bem Fechados', em Londres, entre 1998 e 1999, um homem fingiu ser o recluso diretor Stanley Kubrick e entrou em festas, restaurantes e nightclubs mais badalados da capital inglesa. Baseado em fatos reais, o projeto foi desenvolvido por dois colaboradores de Kubrick, Anthony Frewin, que assina o roteiro, e Brian Cook, na direção.
O Sabor da Magia
Hameeda - Haroun's neighbor
Tilo (Aishwarya Rai) é uma mulher misteriosa, que é dona de uma loja de especiarias e possui o dom mágico de transformar seus ingredientes em poções para curar as pessoas. Porém há uma regra: Tilo jamais poderá provar alguma de suas receitas ou se apaixonar, caso contrário perderá seu dom.
Anita and Me
Mrs. Daljeet Kumar
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.
Star Wars: Episódio II - Ataque dos Clones
Queen Jamillia
Com a missão de proteger a Senadora Amidala, Anakin Skywalker descobre o seu amor por ela, do mesmo modo que vai conhecendo seu lado sombrio. Obi-Wan Kenobi descobre um exército de clones à medida que a Galáxia caminha para uma grande guerra.
The Mystic Masseur
Circa 1940 in Trinidad, still a British Colony, lives Ganesh Ramseyor, of East Indian origin, along with his wife, Leela. He longs to reach out to people, especially to Hindus, in order to promote the Hindu Faith, and be known as a writer. He does get considerable success, so much so that he becomes famous as a miracle worker, having cured a man of sharing intimacy with his bicycle; prevented a man from believing that he can fly; and convincing a young woman to end her fast. His fame spreads all over the island and thousands throng to seek his blessings, which he does dole out quite benevolently, without charging any fees from the poor and the needy. He then decides to spread his wings by challenging the local politician Pandit Narayan Chandrashekhar alias Cyrus T., and takes over The Hindu Organization, thence opening his way to a seat in the prestigious Member of the Legislative Assembly
The Terrorist
Malli
A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
Saaz
Kuhu Vrundavan
Mansi, played by Aruna Irani the elder sister has to take up professional singing after her father's death and to support the family. The film focuses mainly on the female characters and traces how the younger sibling Bansi played by Shabana Azmi regains her identity.
A Cidade da Esperança
Amrita H. Pal
O jovem e cínico médico americano Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze) decide largar a carreira e ir para a Índia. Lá ele reencontra uma razão para viver ao se deparar com a triste realidade de milhões de pessoas vivendo na mais absoluta pobreza, com atendimento médico precário, oprimidos por um gângster que domina a cidade de Calcutá.
Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former life as a Brahman wife in Nepal. Her parish priest, Father Daniel is under orders to convince her otherwise, as reincarnation does not accord with official Catholic doctrine. Instead, he agrees to journey with her to the site of her dreams of a previous life. Once there, they discover that all is just as she had dreamed it, and her former husband has remarried despite promising not to. Her arrival on the scene does not disturb the man, but it really upsets his new wife, who departs with her baby. Manika decides that it helps no one for her to remain there in Nepal, and returns to her home in the south. However, all this has caused a genuine crisis of faith for the priest who, witnessing all this, has had to grapple with some irreconcilable issues.