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	Vasundhara's current focus is on music composition at her Bangalore-based studio called ''The Active''. She has also been involved in several independent projects such as [[Channel V]] Jammin', [[BBC]]'s HIV awareness anthem for India 'Har Kadam', Mission Ustaad, Arya, Global Rhythms, Nylon Soundz and most recently, The Shah Hussain Project, a collaborative album with [[Sufi singer]] Mir Mukhtiyar Ali.		Vasundhara's current focus is on music composition at her Bangalore-based studio called ''The Active''. She has also been involved in several independent projects such as [[Channel V]] Jammin', [[BBC]]'s HIV awareness anthem for India 'Har Kadam', Mission Ustaad, Arya, Global Rhythms, Nylon Soundz and most recently, The Shah Hussain Project, a collaborative album with [[Sufi singer]] Mir Mukhtiyar Ali.

	She won the [[Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil\|Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Tamil]] for the film ''[[Mudhalvan]]''<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://archive.org/details/Vasundharadaswon47thAnnualFilmfareSouthBestPlaybackSingerfilmMudhalvan\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170205075923/https://archive.org/details/Vasundharadaswon47thAnnualFilmfareSouthBestPlaybackSingerfilmMudhalvan\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2017-02-05\|title=47th Annual Filmfare South Best Playback Singer : Santosh : Free Down…\|date=2017-02-05\|work=archive.is\|access-date=2018-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\| url = https://www.deccanherald.com/metrolife/metrolife-on-the-move/vasundhara-s-focus-is-now-music-therapy-851086.html\| title = Vasundhara’s focus is now music therapy {{!}} Deccan Herald}} </ref>		She won the [[Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil\|Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Tamil]] for the film ''[[Mudhalvan]]''<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://archive.org/details/Vasundharadaswon47thAnnualFilmfareSouthBestPlaybackSingerfilmMudhalvan\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170205075923/https://archive.org/details/Vasundharadaswon47thAnnualFilmfareSouthBestPlaybackSingerfilmMudhalvan\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2017-02-05\|title=47th Annual Filmfare South Best Playback Singer : Santosh : Free Down…\|date=2017-02-05\|work=archive.is\|access-date=2018-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\| url = https://www.deccanherald.com/metrolife/metrolife-on-the-move/vasundhara-s-focus-is-now-music-therapy-851086.html\| title = Vasundhara’s focus is now music therapy {{!}} Deccan Herald}}</ref>

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{{Short description|Indian actor and singer}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Vasundhara Das
| image = Vasundhara das.jpg
| caption = Das in 2010
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1977|10|27}}
| birth_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]], [[India]]
| occupation = Singer, actor, composer, entrepreneur, speaker, songwriter
| yearsactive = 1998–2012
| spouse = {{marriage| Roberto Narain | 2012}}
}}

'''Vasundhara Das''' (born 27 October 1977) is an Indian singer, actress, composer, entrepreneur, speaker, songwriter and environmental activist.

Vasundhara's films include ''[[Hey Ram]]'' (Tamil/Hindi), ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]'' (English), ''[[Citizen (film)|Citizen]]'' (Tamil), ''[[Ravana Prabhu]]'' (Malayalam), ''[[Lankesh Patrike]]'' (Kannada) and several others. Vasundhara has worked with composers such as [[A. R. Rahman]], [[Vijaya Bhaskar]], [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]] and [[G. V. Prakash Kumar]] to name a few.

Vasundhara's current focus is on music composition at her Bangalore-based studio called ''The Active''. She has also been involved in several independent projects such as [[Channel V]] Jammin', [[BBC]]'s HIV awareness anthem for India 'Har Kadam', Mission Ustaad, Arya, Global Rhythms, Nylon Soundz and most recently, The Shah Hussain Project, a collaborative album with [[Sufi singer]] Mir Mukhtiyar Ali.

She won the [[Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil|Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Tamil]] for the film ''[[Mudhalvan]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/Vasundharadaswon47thAnnualFilmfareSouthBestPlaybackSingerfilmMudhalvan|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170205075923/https://archive.org/details/Vasundharadaswon47thAnnualFilmfareSouthBestPlaybackSingerfilmMudhalvan|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-02-05|title=47th Annual Filmfare South Best Playback Singer : Santosh : Free Down…|date=2017-02-05|work=archive.is|access-date=2018-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.deccanherald.com/metrolife/metrolife-on-the-move/vasundhara-s-focus-is-now-music-therapy-851086.html| title = Vasundhara’s focus is now music therapy {{!}} Deccan Herald}} </ref>

==Personal life==
She was born into a [[Hebbar Iyengar]] family on 27 October 1977 in Bangalore, Karnataka and studied at [[Cluny Convent High School, Malleswaram|Cluny Convent High School, Bangalore]], Sri Vidya Mandir, Bangalore and [[Mount Carmel College, Bangalore]], graduating in economics, Statistics and Mathematics. She began training in [[Hindustani classical music]] under her grandmother Indira Das and later trained under Lalita Kaikini and [[Pandit Parameshwar Hegde]].

In her college days, she was a lead singer of a girl band and was soprano in the college choir. In an interview, she states that - "I got booed off the first time I sang on stage".<ref>{{cite web|access-date=21 January 2015 |url=http://www.knowyourstar.com/vasundhara-das-interview/–|title=Musical Queen Reviving the Roots of Music}} {{Dead link|date=March 2016}}</ref> She is a polyglot and speaks [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Kannada]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[English language|English]], [[Malayalam]], [[Hindi]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. In 2012, Vasundhara married her long-time friend, Roberto Narain, a drummer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=291940 |title=Manglorean – Vasundhara wedding |access-date=20 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220033905/http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=291940|archive-date=20 December 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Career==

===As an actress===
[[File:Vasundhara Das Live in a Concert.jpg|right|upright|thumb|Das Live in a Concert]]

In 1999, Vasundhara began acting with [[Kamal Haasan]] in the film ''[[Hey Ram]]''. She played the lead actress alongside [[Mohanlal]] in the Malayalam movie ''Raavana Prabhu'', with [[Ajith Kumar]] in the Tamil movie ''Citizen'' and with [[Darshan (actor)|Darshan]] in the Kannada movie ''Lankesh Patrike''. She also starred in [[Mira Nair]]'s movie ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''.

===Music===
She worked with playback singing career with [[A. R. Rahman]]'s Tamil film ''[[Mudhalvan]]'', for which she sang the song "Shakalaka Baby", and thereby winning the Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Award 2001.{{Citation needed|date = July 2013}} She has a French single out in France called L'ete Indien in collaboration with Paris-based Agrumes Studio. She was a founding member of Arya, a [[world music]] band that has performed in Europe and America and broke up in 2004.

===Other Work===
As a speaker, she has given talks at conferences like INK Talks in association with TED, Confederation of Indian Industries' Conference for Women Entrepreneurs, [[All India Management Association|AIMA]]'s 7th National Brand Summit, [[TEDx]] and The Mentor Conclave. She wrote the inaugural blog post for [[IIT Kanpur]]'s eCell Blog. As an entrepreneur, Vasundhara, along with partner Roberto Narain run DRUMJAM, a company that uses the medium of music and rhythm for corporate training, team building and community building. Her studio with partner Roberto Narain, The Active, has produced The Shah Hussain Project, an album of contemporary Sufi music. Also, she has done a critically acclaimed play ''Wake up Call'' with an off-Broadway Theatre company, Chilsag Chillies in 2012.

==Filmography==

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Language || Notes
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Hey Ram]]'' || Mythili Iyengar || [[Tamil language|Tamil]]/ [[Hindi language|Hindi]] || Debut feature film
|-
| 2001 || ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]'' || Aditi Verma || Hindi/English ||
|-
| 2001 || ''[[Citizen (film)|Citizen]]'' ||Indhu || Tamil ||
|-
| 2001 || ''[[Ravanaprabhu]]'' || Mundackal Janaki || [[Malayalam]] ||
|-
| 2003 || ''Lankesh Patrike'' || Preethi || [[Kannada]] ||
|-
| 2003 || ''Film Star'' || Lila, An Inmate || Hindi ||
|-
| 2004 || ''[[Vajram (2004 film)|Vajram]]'' || Gemini || Malayalam ||
|-
| 2004 || ''Pathar Bezubaan'' || Kalpana Varma || Hindi ||
|-
| 2006 || ''[[Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamana]]'' || Natasha || Hindi ||
|-
| 2006 || ''[[Corporate (2006 film)|Corporate]]'' || Herself || Hindi ||
|-
| 2007 || ''Ek Dastak'' || Akansha || Hindi ||
|}

==Discography==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Year
!Movie
! Song Title

! Composer

!Co-Singer
|-
|1999
|''[[Mudhalvan]]''
|"[[Shakalaka Baby]]"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Pravin Mani]]
|-
| rowspan="4" |2000
|[[Rhythm (2000 film)|''Rhythm'']]
|"Ayyo Pathikichu"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Udit Narayan]]
|-
|''[[Azad (2000 film)|Azad]]''
| "Sonare" ||[[Mani Sharma]]
|[[Udit Narayan]]
|-

|''[[Kushi (2000 film)|Kushi]]''
| "Kattipudi Kattipudida" ||[[Deva (composer)|Deva]]
|[[Shankar Mahadevan]]
|-
|-
|''[[Moodu Mukkalaata]]''
|''"Prema Vikramarkudu"''
|[[M. M. Srilekha]]
|[[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]]
|-
| rowspan="5" |2001
| rowspan="2" |[[Neela (film)|''Neela'']]
|"Hejje Hejje Mathadu"
| rowspan="2" |[[Vijaya Bhaskar]]
| rowspan="2" |Solo
|-
| "Ee Nada Manninalli"
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Citizen (film)|''Citizen'']]
|"Pookari Pookari"
| rowspan="2" |[[Deva (composer)|Deva]]
|[[Shankar Mahadevan]]
|-
|"I Like You"
|
|-
|[[Lagaan]]
|"O Rey Chhori"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Udit Narayan]], [[Alka Yagnik]]
|-
|2002
|''[[Adrustam]]''
|"Hollywood Handsome"
|[[Dhina]]
|[[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]]
|-
| rowspan="7" |2003
| ''Lankesh Patrike''
| "Nodkond Baaro Andre
| Babji-Sandeep
| Babji-Sandeep
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Boys (2003 film)|''Boys'']]
|"Sarigame"
| rowspan="2" |[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Lucky Ali]]
|-
|"Dating"
|
|-
|''[[Missamma (2003 film)|Misamma]]''
| "Ney Padithe Lokamey Padadha"||[[Vandemataram Srinivas]]
|
|-
|[[Chakri (composer)|''Juniors'']]
|"Night Jorugunnadi"
|[[Chakri (composer)|Chakri]]
|[[Tippu (singer)|Tippu]]
|-
|''Mee Intikosthe Yem Istharu Maa Intikosthe Yem Testharu''
|"Cienmallo Gani"
|Ghantadi Krishna
|
|-
|''[[Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003 film)|Kal Ho Naa Ho]]''
| "It's The Time To Disco" ||[[Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy]]
|[[KK (singer)|KK]], [[Loy Mendonsa]], [[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]], [[sadhna sargam]]
|-
|-
| rowspan="5" |2004
| rowspan="2" |[[Sye (2004 film)|''Sye'']]
| "Sye" || rowspan="2" |[[M. M. Keeravani]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Kalyani Malik]], [[Smita]]
|-
|"Ganga AC"
|-
|''Thumsup''
|"Vanitha Vanitha"
|Jeevan Thamos
|
|-
|[[Manmadhan (film)|''Manmadha'']]
|"Thathai Thathai"
|[[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
|[[Devi Sri Prasad]]
|-
|[[Monalisa (film)|''Monalisa'']]
|"Kurrakaru Hero"
|Valisha Babji
|[[Shankar Mahadevan]]
|-
| rowspan="3"|2005
|''[[Aparichithudu]]''
|"Naaku Neeku Nokia"
|[[Harris Jayaraj]]
|[[Kunal Ganjawala]]
|-
|''[[Anbe Aaruyire (2005 film)|Anbe Aaruyire]]''
|"Maram Kothiye"
|[[A.R.Rahman]]
|[[Shankar Mahadevan]]
|-
|[[Salaam Namaste]]
|"Salaam Namaste"
|[[Vishal–Shekhar]]
|[[Kunal Ganjawala]]
|-
| rowspan="5" |2006
|[[Happy (2006 film)|''Happy'']]
|"I Hate You"
|[[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
|[[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith]]
|-
|''[[Mayabazar (2006 film)|Mayabazaar]]''
| "Andulona Undi" ||[[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]
|[[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]
|-
|[[Vandemataram Srinivas|''Hanumanthu'']]
|"Neevu Kottina"
|[[Vandemataram Srinivas]]
|Naveen
|-
|-
|''[[Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna]]''
|"Where's The Party Tonight?"||[[Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy]]
|[[Joi Barua]], [[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]]
|-
|''[[Sarada Saradaga]]''
|"Yenno Janma Janmala"
|[[S. V. Krishna Reddy]]
|[[Kunal Ganjawala]]
|-
|rowspan="3" |2007
|[[Hudugaata]]
| "Mandakiniye"
| [[Jessie Gift]]
| Jessie Gift
|-
|[[Vijayadasami (film)|''Vijayadasami'']]
|"Deepavali"
|[[Srikanth Deva]]
|Naveen
|-
|''[[Sillunu Oru Kaadhal]]''
|"Machhakkari"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Shankar Mahadevan]]
|-
|2008
|''[[Ullasamga Utsahamga]]''
|"Chakori"
|[[G. V. Prakash Kumar]]
|[[Benny Dayal]]
|-
|2012
|''[[Yamudiki Mogudu: Ee Nela Thakkuvodu]]''
|"Narottama Narottama"
|[[Saluri Koteswara Rao|Koti]]
|
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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