Meet NIYAR SAIKIA, the girl who plays the thirteen-year-old Lakshmi This is Niyars first featured role though she has done a number of short films. Casting director Tess Joseph auditioned over 1,000 girls in Nepal and India for the role of Lakshmi, video taping over 700 of them. Niyar has a rare combination of profound intelligence, presence and grace. She is incredibly happy and still a child and yet can plummet into the depths of despair and sadness with her amazing acting abilities. Her father is a musician and composer and her mother is a singer. Niyar has grown up performing: dancing and singing and acting in school plays. She is from Northern India, an area close to the border of Nepal in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains. Niyar has been awarded an acting scholarship by the Indian government for her amazing talent. During the first week of shooting, Niyar celebrated her thirteen birthday on set with four cakes. We took a fifteen minute break, everyone shoveled down a piece of cake and we went right back to work. Niyar has a bright future ahead of her.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:03:40 +0000
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