Jyoti Singh (actress)

Jyoti Singh
Singh, 2010
Born
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Occupations
  • Actor
  • film director
SpouseSumeet Verma
AwardsWinner Best Actress at The People's Film Festival, New York 2014 [1]
Websitejyotisingh.net

Jyoti Singh is a US-based actress of Indian origin. She is also the director of Yadvi – The Dignified Princess,[2][3][4] a biopic on Maharani Yadhuvansh Kumari, the daughter of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala.[5]

Early life

Jyoti Singh lived with her grandmother, Maharani Yadhuvansh Kumari, till she was 13 years old. After that, she along with her mother and sisters moved to the United States of America.[6]

Career

After working as an actress for close to a decade, Jyoti Singh turned a director with Yadvi – The Dignified Princess, which went on to be screened at numerous film festivals across the world.[7][8]

The film got positive to mixed reviews across board.[9][10]

As an actress Jyoti has worked on NBC mini series The Slap and the Bollywood movie Mirror Game.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Best Actress at The People's Film Festival". IMDB.
  2. ^ "A Mid-Day report on Yadvi The Dignified Princess". Mid Day. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Jyoti Singh on Yadvi". Urban Asian. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  4. ^ "An Interview with Jyoti Singh". BizAsiaLive. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Maharani Yadhuvansh Kumari". Indian-American Community News. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  6. ^ "Cinestaan speaks to Jyoti Singh". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Screened at Manhattan Film Festival". Manhattan Film Festival. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Screening of Yadvi". The Hindu.
  9. ^ "The American Bazaar reviews Yadvi the Dignified Princess". the American Bazaar. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  10. ^ "BookMyShow reviews Yadvi the Dignified Princess – "Witness the steel will of an extraordinary princess from a bygone era"". BookMyShow. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  11. ^ "Full Cast Mirror Game IMDB". IMDB. Retrieved 7 June 2017.