Suman Sridhar is a singer, songwriter, and actor. Sridhar works in music, performance art, theatre and film. She co-produced and acted in her debut feature film ''Ajeeb Aashiq''/''Strange Love'' by filmmake
Natasha Mendonca
which premiered at the

International Film Festival Rotterdam The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental fi ...

, 2016 and received th
Bright Future Award
nomination and the jury prize at th
Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
Suman is trained in Bharat Natyam classical dance and Indian Classical music and studied Western Classical Music, Women's & Gender Studies and Visual Arts fro
Mason Gross
Rutgers University, USA. Suman has sung chart topping Bollywood film songs. Her performances include venues like National Centre for the Performing Arts (India), Southbank Centre (UK), BBC- World Service (UK), MTV India, Sound Trek (Fox Traveller India), NH7 Weekender (India), Radio Mirchi Music Awards (India), Mijwan Fashion Show (India), Jazzmandu (Nepal), Galle Literary Festival (Sri Lanka), The Quarter: Royal Opera House (India), The Great Escape Festival (UK), One Billion Rising (India) etc. Her work has been part of art exhibitions such as Transformation 19124 (Philadelphia), Sarai Reader 09 (India), What Happened 2081? (German) and Between the Waves at dOCUMENTA (13) (Germany). Suman has produced, written and performed in original works such as Yoni Ki Baat (South Asian Women's Collective, USA), The Flying Wallas: Opera Noir (Prithvi Theatre Festival, India) Fall In Line and All That Remains is Flight: a conversation between Sappho and Medusa. Suman is one half of the audio-visual music du
The Black Mamba
which inaugurated the 20th Contemporary Arts Festival
VideoBrasil_Sesc, São Paulo
(2017) the Kochi Muziris Biennale, India (2016) and headlined at the Ziro Music festival, India (2016). The Black Mamba's live cinema piec
Land of the Breasted Woman
won a Sesc_Videobrasil residency prize at the Wexner Center for the Arts (USA) and had a screening at th
11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.

Career

In its 2014 listing of "25 Greatest Indian Rock Songs of the last 25 Years", ''Rolling Stone'' India featured Punk Bhajan.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sridhar, Suman Bollywood playback singers Living people American women singers of Indian descent Rutgers University alumni 21st-century Indian singers Songwriters from New Jersey 21st-century American women singers 21st-century American singers Year of birth missing (living people)