Anahita Uberoi Biography 
Anahita Uberoi is a well-established stage actress who appeared in a few Bollywood movies. Uberoi worked in many English language plays like The Dining Room, The Typists, Rupert's Birthday, Going Solo, The Glass Menagerie, Seascape with Sharks and Dancers and If Wishes Were Horses. She is an actor, director and producer who has worked extensively in many big cities like New York, Mumbai and Germany. As a withdrawn, disabled girl in Glass Menagerie is one of her breakthrough performances. It was followed by ‘Seascape with Sharks’ and ‘Solo’.
The daughter of thespians Vijaya and Farrokh Mehta, she knew from the early stage of life itself that she is chosen for stage. She has worked in Bollywood movies - Jism, Paap and Holiday directed by Pooja Bhatt. Uberoi's own productions are refreshingly unpretentious, with well-polished scripts which narrate new stories, an exception to sex comedies and tired re-runs of Broadway classics which rules Indian theater. "My aim is to bring money to Indian theatre so that acting becomes a profession rather than a hobby” – the artist says.
She was born in 1967 in Mumbai to great artist Vijaya and Farrokh Mehta. Her mother was first married to son of actress Durga Khote and had two sons from this marriage. Vijaya married Farrokh Mehta. Anahita started working as a stage artist at the age of 12, working with mother’s troupe. She completed psychology and sociology from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and then trained in directing, acting, music and dance at Herbert Berghof Studio, New York and worked for a while before she returned back.
She worked as an assistant director to Gloria Muzio and Joe Dowling in New York for 15 plays. She has worked with Oscar and Tony award winners like Jason Robards, Judd Hirsch, Eli Wallach, Robert Sean Leonard and Mary Steenburgen. Chaos theory, Noises Off, Class of ’84, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, Going Solo 1, Going Solo 2, The Glass Menagerie and Kabaret are some of her best performances. She has also worked with Rahul Bose, Ram Madhvani and Vinta Nanda for some films.
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Updated: November 29, 2015
