Devika Bhise

Some Lesser Known Facts About Devika Bhise 

• Does Devika Bhise drink alcohol?: Yes

  

• Devika Bhise is an American actress, dancer, singer, and scriptwriter of Indian origin.

• She acted in the 2008 Hollywood film, ‘The Accidental Husband,’ and at that time, she was in the tenth standard.

• While she was studying in college, she won the ‘Hodson Trust Scholarship’ and was a ‘Woodrow Wilson Fellow.’ She acted in ‘The Partition,’ a play based on the life of the famous Indian mathematician Ramanujan, in her college days.

• When she was 18 years old, she directed a documentary ‘Hijras: The Third Gender,’ for which she visited the red-light area in India.

• She has acted in a few English films including ‘The Accidental Husband’ (2008), ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ (2015), and ‘The Rest of Us’ (2018).

• She has acted in the English TV series One Bad Choice (2015) and Elementary (2015).

• Devika is a trained classical dancer, just like her mother and has performed at various venues including Lincoln Center and Asia Society.

• She has been awarded the ‘Best Social Documentary at the New York Independent Film Festival’ in 2009 for ‘Hijras: The Third Gender,’ and she also won ‘Rising Star Award 2019.’

• She is an active member of a social activist group; working against human trafficking globally.

• She co-scripted and acted in the British period drama film ‘The Warrior Queen of Jhansi’ (2019), in which she played the title character.