Ferena Wazeir
Encyclopedia
Ferena Wazeir, born 25 July 1986, is a British
Asia
n actress. She began her acting career in amateur theatre
and came to prominence after she was captured by photographer Farock Chotia from India
while on a holiday at the Pushkar fair in Rajasthan
.
Ferena is part of several Bollywood
films like Ketan Mehta
's Rang Rasiya
/Colours of Passion with Randeep Hooda
, Raj Kanwar
’s Sadiyaan
opposite Shatrugan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha which also stars Rekha, Rishi Kapoor
and Hema Malini
. Wazeir has also been the brand ambassador of Kolkata
’s biggest jewellery brand, P.C. Chandra Jewellers, for two years.
. Her family hails from Loharin, Kashmir
. She studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
(RADA). In India, she has trained and worked under theatre stalwarts like Satyadev Dubey
and Alque Padamsee.
. While she was completing her studies, she started doing modelling
, theatre and voice-overs. This led to offers for commercials and short films.
Wazeir performed in the play The Vagina Monologues
by playwright Eve Ensler
when she was just 17.
In India, Wazeir appeared in music composer A.R. Rehman’s video which was an ode of love to the Taj Mahal
. There she played the character of Mumtaz Mahal
, the legendary beauty for whom the Taj was built. She also had the opportunity to work with singer Hariharan
for his music composition before being cast by director Ketan Mehta
for his epic story Rang Rasiya/Colours of Passion. Soon after followed her first lead role in Raj Kanwar’s Sadiyaan which marks the launch of Shatrugan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha. The film also stars Rishi Kapoor, Rekha and Hema Malini.
Wazeir has landed a lead role in the Bosnia
n director Danis Tanovic
’s upcoming project.
, Elle
, Seventeen
, L’Officiel,Filmfare
, FHM
, Femina and Verve.
for three months to work with the Maasai people. That summer she shot and presented a documentary
on the Maasai tribe of East Africa to highlight their cause. It was aired on primetime KTN
and KBC
.
In 2008 Wazeir walked the ramp at the Graffiti Ball charity show in London
to raise money for street children
.
In 2009 Wazeir appeared with Hurman Baweja in a two-minute United Nations
film to raise awareness of global warming
entitled Eco of Echoes. The video was directed by Pan Nalin
and was showcased at Cannes Film Festival
2009.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
n actress. She began her acting career in amateur theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and came to prominence after she was captured by photographer Farock Chotia from India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
while on a holiday at the Pushkar fair in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
.
Ferena is part of several Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
films like Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta is an Indian film director, who has also directed documentaries and television serials.-Early life and education:Born in Navsari in Gujarat, Ketan Mehta did his schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi and later graduated in film direction from Film and Television Institute of...
's Rang Rasiya
Rang Rasiya
Rang Rasiya is an Indian drama film based on the life of the 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma. The film is directed and co-produced by Ketan Mehta, and stars Randeep Hooda, Nandana Sen and a newcomer Triptha Parashar in the lead roles....
/Colours of Passion with Randeep Hooda
Randeep Hooda
Randeep Singh Hooda is an Indian actor who works in Bollywood films.-Early life:Hooda was born in the village of Jaseya in Rohtak district of Haryana. His mother, Asha Hooda, is a social worker and his father, Dr. Ranbir Hooda, is a surgeon by profession...
, Raj Kanwar
Raj Kanwar
Raj Kanwar is a Bollywood film director, writer and film producer based in Mumbai, India.-raj kanwar and abhay kanwar:Director:* Mad * Sadiyaan * Humko Deewana Kar Gaye * Andaaz * Ab Ke Baras * Farz...
’s Sadiyaan
Sadiyaan
Sadiyaan is a Bollywood film released in 2010 which stars Rishi Kapoor, Hema Malini and Rekha. The story is about a family during the partition of India. The film was directed by Raj Kanwar and it has been distributed by the B4U and known as a B4U MoviesProduction. It was released on Friday, 2...
opposite Shatrugan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha which also stars Rekha, Rishi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor, film producer and director.-Early life:Born in Chembur Mumbai, Kapoor is the second son of film director and star Raj Kapoor. He did his schooling with his brothers at Campion School,Mumbai. His brothers are well-known actors: Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv...
and Hema Malini
Hema Malini
Hema Malini is an Indian actress, director and producer, as well as a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer. Making her acting debut in Sapno Ka Saudagar , she went on to appear in numerous Bollywood films, most notably those with actor and future-husband Dharmendra. She was initially promoted as...
. Wazeir has also been the brand ambassador of Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
’s biggest jewellery brand, P.C. Chandra Jewellers, for two years.
Early life
She was brought up in ScotlandScotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. Her family hails from Loharin, Kashmir
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...
. She studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...
(RADA). In India, she has trained and worked under theatre stalwarts like Satyadev Dubey
Satyadev Dubey
Satyadev Dubey is an Indian theatre director, actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film actor and director. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1971....
and Alque Padamsee.
Career
Wazeir began her acting career doing amateur theatre in the United KingdomUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. While she was completing her studies, she started doing modelling
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
, theatre and voice-overs. This led to offers for commercials and short films.
Wazeir performed in the play The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the Off Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at AFRICA in 1996. Ensler originally starred in the production which was produced by David Stone, Nina Essman, Dan Markley, The Araca Group, Willa Shalit, Mike Skipper...
by playwright Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.- Personal life :...
when she was just 17.
In India, Wazeir appeared in music composer A.R. Rehman’s video which was an ode of love to the Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal is a white Marble mausoleum located in Agra, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal...
. There she played the character of Mumtaz Mahal
Mumtaz Mahal
Mumtaz Mahal born as Arjumand Banu Begum was a Mughal Empress and chief consort of emperor Shah Jahan...
, the legendary beauty for whom the Taj was built. She also had the opportunity to work with singer Hariharan
Hariharan (singer)
Hariharan , born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. His melody is strongly appreciated by the film fraternity...
for his music composition before being cast by director Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta is an Indian film director, who has also directed documentaries and television serials.-Early life and education:Born in Navsari in Gujarat, Ketan Mehta did his schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi and later graduated in film direction from Film and Television Institute of...
for his epic story Rang Rasiya/Colours of Passion. Soon after followed her first lead role in Raj Kanwar’s Sadiyaan which marks the launch of Shatrugan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha. The film also stars Rishi Kapoor, Rekha and Hema Malini.
Wazeir has landed a lead role in the Bosnia
Bosnia (region)
Bosnia is a eponomous region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies mainly in the Dinaric Alps, ranging to the southern borders of the Pannonian plain, with the rivers Sava and Drina marking its northern and eastern borders. The other eponomous region, the southern, other half of the country is...
n director Danis Tanovic
Danis Tanovic
Danis Tanović is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter.Tanović is best known for having directed and written the script for the 2001 Bosnian movie No Man's Land which won an Academy Award. He was a member of the jury at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Biography:Danis Tanović was born in the...
’s upcoming project.
Media attention
Wazeir has been the focus of significant media attention. She has been featured in top magazines like Marie Claire, HelloHello
Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is attested in writing as early as the 1830s.-First use:Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications as early as 1833. These include an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col...
, Elle
Elle (magazine)
Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
, Seventeen
Seventeen (magazine)
Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...
, L’Officiel,Filmfare
Filmfare
Filmfare is an English-language tabloid-sized magazine about Indian cinema. Published by The Times Group, India's largest media services conglomerate, in Mumbai , it highlights the doings of the Bollywood film scene...
, FHM
FHM
FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...
, Femina and Verve.
Charity
Wazeir has been active in social causes and helping the disadvantaged from a young age. When she was 16, during her school holidays she went to East AfricaEast Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
for three months to work with the Maasai people. That summer she shot and presented a documentary
Documentary
A documentary is a creative work of non-fiction, including:* Documentary film, including television* Radio documentary* Documentary photographyRelated terms include:...
on the Maasai tribe of East Africa to highlight their cause. It was aired on primetime KTN
Kenya Television Network
Kenya Television Network is the leading television station in Kenya with its headquarters at the I & M Towers in downtown Nairobi. Its headquarters will change later on in the year as it moves in with its parent company's other subsidiaries at the newly-built Standard Group Centre on Mombasa road...
and KBC
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation is the state-run media organization of Kenya. It broadcasts in both English and Swahili, as well as in most local languages of Kenya. The corporation started its life in 1928 when Kenya was a British colony. In 1964, when Kenya became an independent country, the...
.
In 2008 Wazeir walked the ramp at the Graffiti Ball charity show in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
to raise money for street children
Street children
A street child is a child who lives on the streets of a city, deprived of family care and protection. Most children on the streets are between the ages of about 5 and 17 years old.Street children live in junk boxes, parks or on the street itself...
.
In 2009 Wazeir appeared with Hurman Baweja in a two-minute United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
film to raise awareness of global warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
entitled Eco of Echoes. The video was directed by Pan Nalin
Pan Nalin
Pan Nalin is an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary maker. Nalin is best known for directing award-winning films like Samsara, Valley of Flowers, and Ayurveda: Art of Being. His debut film, Samsara went on to win awards like "Grand Jury Prize - Special Mention" at AFI Fest and "Most...
and was showcased at Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
2009.
External links
- ferenawazeir blogspot
- YouTube
- YouTube
- mathures blogspot
- http://www.ferena-wazeir.com/