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BIO

Swachata has vivid memories of herself as a little girl, entranced by the magic of watching her father performing in television serials, while she sat next to him. Her parents put her in a school system where Bengali was the first language. This decision, and her modest upbringing in a small town on the outskirts of Kolkata, gave Swachata a firm foundation in the rich literary, artistic, and cultural traditions of Bengal.

Swachata’s parents encouraged her to pursue her cherished dream of becoming a professional actress and advised her to study the craft of acting on both stage and screen. She is extremely influenced by her artist father Sanjiban Guha. He not only contributed as an actor in the Bengali film industry but was actively involved in North American Bengali Conference for years.

Her acting journey began with theatre in Kolkata, where she performed and directed plays, and took part in dance dramas. Through her hard work, she earned a First-Class Honours degree in Dramatics. Swachata then worked as an assistant script writer and director in Bengali television, to gain more experience “behind the scenes.”

In 2008, she started her studies at FTII. The versatile training helped Swachata master professional skills and taught her how to be a responsible, ethical, and dedicated artist. She especially gained a reverence towards the labour involved behind the camera. She feels blessed to have had many respected teachers: Adil Aman, Paintal ji, Vipinchandra Naria, Divakaran ji, Anil Srivastava, Jethu Mandal, Arvind Pandey, Ashwath Bhatt, Alok Chatterjee, Saurabh Shukla and Mita Vashisht.

Swachata has worked with directors like Subhash Ghai, Vikramaditya Motwane, and Anurag Basu. She was in the acting faculty at Whistling Woods International and the Institute of Creative Excellence.

Her Bollywood films are – LOOTERA, JAB TUM KAHO & GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE.

TV SERIES-TAGORE STORIES-NETFLIX. Her short film –“Khane mein kya hain” crossed more than 13 million views & She has acted in 20 plays so far. In her entire career, she has acted in (English-Hindi-Bengali) 3 languages. She has directed dance drama, short films, documentary, proscenium & digital theatre.

The life path chosen by artists is difficult. Swachata faced her own career challenges with fortitude, patience, and faith. The cutthroat competitiveness in the industry can often demoralise artists, but Swachata never gave up. She worked hard to perfect her Hindi and learned English as an adult.

Since 2020, After immigrating to the USA, she joined the global cast of British web series on Shakespeare -The show must go online (TSMGO) thrice (KING LEAR, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, MEASURE FOR MEASURE) & got nominated by groundling choice awards by (TSMGO-UK) for her singing. She has acted, directed & produced her first off-off-Broadway play production – “The Marriage Proposal” a multilingual comedy play in 2021, New York. She did – The off-Broadway play  “For your consideration” which  premiered last July in Daryl Roth Theatre, New York.

And as an actor, director & producer she brought a huge diversity  in the16th South Asian Theatre Festival with her production house Swaventurez the company's play - “Silence the court is in session” last 6th August in New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, NJ. Her Production Swaventurez the company successfully did shows of two theater production in multiple cities & festivals in New York, New Jersey, Boston.

She been a face for REMITLY & HANNAFORD COOKIES.  

She now lives in the New York Tri-state area, where she is continuing to build on her promising career with creatives from around the world. 

Education

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  •  PG DIPLOMA   

  

In Acting & Film making

from the pioneer govt film institute

THE FILM & TELEVISION INSTITUTE OF         INDIA,  

Pune, Maharashtra , India

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  • GRADUATION 

 

1ST class HONS graduate in DRAMATICS 

from

RABINDRA BHARATI UNIVERSITY,

KOLKATA, west Bengal, India

 

 Trained in --

--Acting,

--Script writing,

--Direction

--Stage designing,

--light  designing

--Sound designing

--Costume

--Make up

--pre production

--Additional subject : INDIAN CLASSICAL dance.

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  •  HIGH SCHOOL

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(ARTS) from ICHAPUR GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL

West Bengal, India

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Career 

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FILM

 In her professional acting career Swachata is experienced in mainstream, independent  & experimental films. She made her debut in Bollywood as an Actor in 2013 with the big budget & much talked Bollywood venture “Lootera”. Swachata fetched critic’s admiration for her debut performance & she is still continuing her performances with other prestigious projects

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  • “LOOTERA” directed by vikramaditya motwane ( 2013) Phantom productions & Balaji motion pictures

  • “ LIGHT SHADE RED” ( experimental ) – 2014

  •  “KABULIWALA “ directed by Anurag basu ( 2015)    Ishana movies

  •  “JAB TUM KAHO “directed by Vikram Shankar  (2016) black pearl movies

  • “GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE” (multi lingual) directed by Sanjay Nag  (To be released).

  •  “KARON KOLKATA" directed by Adwaita Das (FTII) “(To be released)
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WEB SERIES 

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KHANE MEIN KYA HAIN - A short film by chhoti production & Blush channel (2018) 

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THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE (UK) 

- A series of Shakespear's plays (2020)  

 

TELEVISION 

  • Actor for "EPIC "channel's STORIES BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE – directed by ANURAG BASU & TANI BASU

  • Associate script writer for

      ZEE BANGLA channel’s “MIRAKKEL” ---A popular           Bengali nonfiction television show 

  • Assistant creative director for

      -DD BANGLA channel (pre production)

      -ETV BANGLA channel (pre production)

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MEDIA INSTITUTES

For the past 6 years in Indian educational industry Swachata gathered an unique experience of teaching the aspiring actors from the age of 15 to 55. She successfully worked as a drama faculty in few of the most distinguished Indian media institutes & has received written appreciation for her successful teaching ventures.

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  • WHISTLING WOODS INTERNATIONAL  (Mumbai )— (2016-2017)

  • INSTITUTE OF CREATIVE EXCELLENCE (Mumbai )—(2015—2016)

  • CRAFT FILM SCHOOL  (Delhi )—(2012—2015)

  • AIKYABHARATI   RESEARCH   INSTITUTE  (Pune)  (2011)

 

 

PRODUCTION HOUSE

Swachata has worked in two of the most reputed Indian production house of east and west

  • MUKTA ARTS –( 2016-2017) She assisted the living legend Bollywood film maker Mr. SUBHASH GHAI as an assistant writer, creative executive & as a administrator in the story department. 

  • REAL REEL – ( 2008)  She worked as an assistant creative director for the reputed production house of East Indian film Industry  

 

 

 

THEATRE  ( 2004-2022)

Associated as a theatre worker with multiple renowned group theatre productions in different languages. Experienced the wide range of theatrical medium, from street theatre  to proscenium, from mime to folk theatre to clowning acts, and worked under Indian theatre stalwarts like

  • BRATYA BASU

  • SAURABH SHUKLA

  • ATUL KUMAR

  • ASHWATH BHATT

  • ARVIND PANDEY

  • DEBESH CHATTOPADHYAY

  • PRABIR GUHA

  • ALOK CHATTERJEE

  • DEBASHISH ROY. 

  • DULAL LAHIRI

as well as established directors from NYC & NJ like

-  BRITT BERKE 

- DANIEL SWERN 

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  - FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (NYC) - 2022

  - An Off-Broadway play Directed by Britt Berke & Produced by Moxie arts NYC 

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- THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL - 2021 (NYC)

-An Off-off-Broadway multilingual play.

1 play in 3 different languages.

Acted, Directed & Produced by-

Swachata Sanjiban Guha

Swaventurez the company. 

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-SILENCE THE COURT IS IN SESSION- 

-A swaventurez theatrical production for 

SOUTH ASIAN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2022

Acted, Directed & Produced by -

Swachata Sanjiban Guha

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AMERICAN BHOOT 

- A play for South Asian Theatre Festival 2023

directed by Daniel swern 

 

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PRINT MEDIA  (2004—2008)

  •  Freelance journalist

  • at ABP publications. One of the largest and oldest Indian publication house

  • From interview to article regarding teenager issues, social issues, medical industry, from event coverage to film criticism wrote different genre’s features for different magazines under the same publications for 4 years.

 

 

VOICE  & EVENT INDUSTRY  (2010-2015)

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Swachata is fluent in 5 languages including English. She mostly lended her voice in Bengali & Hindi language for

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  • Films  ( HASHI KANNAR ITIKATHA)

  • TV Commercials 

  • International documentaries like BBC's MAHATMA GANDHI

  • National documentaries like “SAVING INDIA’S WESTERN GHATS”

  • International TV series  like ICE ROAD TRUCKERS, 5 INGREDIENTS FIX , VICE, PAWN STARS, BAGGAGE BATTLE,

  • Animations

 Worked as a voice actor for 5 years in Mumbai. She also experienced in the event industry as well as a MC (master of ceremony), she is an impressive public speaker and a good improviser, she successfully conducted various Indian festivals as the solo MC.

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