Swati Bhise

Swati Bhise was born on 21^st October 1959 in Mumbai. Swati is a multitalented director, choreographer, dancer, producer and actress and she has worked in both Hindi and American film industry. Swati started out as a dancer after completing her education. She became an expert in the Bharatnatyam and absolutely blazed every competition she took part in. She came to the spotlight after she performed at the Center of Indian Classical Dances in New Delhi. She is the first disciple of not only one of the greatest classical dancers ever but also a Padma Vibhushan title holder Sonal Mansingh.

After her performance at the Indian Classical Dances, she had the world at her feet. She went on to perform at the prestigious Lincoln Center of Arts in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , The Asia Society in New York, Symphony Space, Metropolitan Museum of Art in the USA and many other countries like Australia, the United Kingdom, France etc. One of her most gloriously notable performances among all the other great performances came when she performed at the 40^th Anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly.

Swati started out in the entertainment world when she was asked to choreograph the Indian segment of Thomas Mann’s Transposed Heads. Swati was also featured as the best performer in her own field in the CBS documentary called Sacred Arts which was televised in the USA.

Upon completing her education, Swati started working as an educator at the Brearley School, New York from 1991. She became a resident teacher at the school. There she founded a Sanskriti Center, which was a non-profit club that educated and promoted various Indian value based teachings. Swati remains one of the most influential figures in the Indo-American community and has been promoting Indian Culture in New York for over 20 years now.

Swati always wanted to expand her creativity into more fields and in 2012 she founded The Sadir Film Festival. This elite event takes place annually in Goa. The festival has featured some of the most critically acclaimed theatre and movie artists Lillette Dubey, Rajat Kapoor Rajat Kapoor was born on 11 th February 1961, in D >> Read More... and many others. In 2014, Swati went on to start her own production house called Cayenne Pepper Productions. The very next year she was credited as the associate producer on the critically acclaimed, Dev Patel Dev Patel is a British actor, who saw his first gl >> Read More... starrer: The Man Who New Infinity. Swati also directed a cross-cultural film in 2019 called The Warrior Queen Of Jhansi.