Indianica Academy Careers in Iselin, NJ

REPERTOIRE on Indianica It is extremely difficult to say about contemporary artists and it is all the more difficult task to write about oneself. But we have no choice. First of all let us introduce ourselves; Our Organizer is Ms. Padma Khanna, an exponent of Kathak Dance, Film & TV Actress of Indian Movie Industry and TV industry At the young age of 7 years she started learning Kathak Dance (one of the most glorified cultural and classical Dances of India) from Guru Kishen Maharaj of Varanasl At the age of 12 she started performing on stage in the accompaniment of Tabla Wizard Pundit Shamta Prasad {also known as Gudai Maharaj zKp: a|lglw}. She learnt Advanced KATHAK DANCE from Padmashri Gopi Krishna, whose talent of Kathak is acclaimed and appreciated like Pundit Ravi Shankar’s in Sitar. She was welcomed with open arms by Movie Industry of India Bombay and for almost two decades, was known as “ Dancing Queen of Indian Cinema”. She acted in more than 400 movies of all languages of India. Few to name are Saaz Aur Awaaz, Biwi Aur Makaan, Johny Mera Naam, Raahgeer, Baharon Ke Sapne, Sangharsh, Anhonee, Dastaan, Heer Ranjha, Hindustan Ki Kasam, Rampur Ka Lakshman, Ashirwaad. Saudagar and many more …. She acted in many TV Serials of India and the most popular among them is Ramayan in which she played one of the two most pivotal female characters KAYKEYI. She won many awards as well as competitions on all India level as the BEST KATHAK DANCER in India. Our Director Mr. Jagdish L. Sidana brought up and educated in highly cultured and famous city of India – Allahabad. After acquiring Degree in Cinema from Film & TV Institute of India, Poona in the year 1969 – 70, he joined film industry in Bombay He worked there as Associate Director, Co-Director, Editor, Director and Producer for approx. 26 years till 1996. During the course of his career he worked for movies like Dastak, Phagun, Uphaar, Saudagar, Kranti, Paanchwin Manzil, Ek Baar Chaley Aao, Bepanaah, Sherdil, Hum Anaaree Hain and few more some of them won national awards and laurels. Mr. Sidana had a chance to work with veteran and versatile artists like Dilip Kumar, Sanjiv Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, Kader Khan, Utpal Datta, Shashi Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty & others as well as renowned heroines. He has been closely associated with Kader Khan for number of stage plays and some of them won Academy Awards too. Our Visiting Professor Mr. Kader Khan does n