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Dance dance

Photo: Mahesh Harilal

Sitting pretty Aiswarya Ajit

Aiswarya Ajit is one of the newest faces on the television. The host of Asianet’s dance reality show Vodafone ‘Ta ka dhi mi’, she has made people sit up and ask “who is this girl?” She has appeared in a number of Malayalam television and print ads, not to mention the Suresh Gopi starrer ‘Chintamani Kola case’.

She recently completed her graduation in English Literature from St Teresa’s College. And she is glad that she is done with academics, “I have no intentions of continuing my education. This is it.” Aishwarya, who has lived in Dubai all her life has made Kochi home. Academic considerations made Kochi home, and then she veered off in the other direction – modelling followed by acting and emceeing.

One of the many faces in ‘Chintamani Kola case’ she does not regret the film, which she says was good learning experience. “I did not know I would be one among the many faces in the film. But then, when my manager and I found out it was too late. And anyway it would not have been right on my part to quit at that stage.”

Ad campaigns with such as Parthas, Dr. Wash, Nunu, Kasavukada have made her a familiar face for most of the television watching audience. She has a couple of film offers, she is currently acting in a Kannada film, ‘Sangaathi’. But her claim to fame as of now is Vodafone ‘Ta Ka Dhi Mi’, of which she is co-anchor with Anoop Shankar. “Initially I was not too sure of how the show would do. Because the Malayali audience is more clued in with music based shows as opposed to something like the concept (‘Ta ka dhi mi’)” she says. Anchoring the show was quite an experience she says and working with people such as Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Vineeth and Gopika Varma is great fun. “We exchange tips on everything, it is great fun on the sets. Although they are big names in their respective fields they have no airs and they are so down-to-earth,” gushes Aishwarya. Not just that she is all praise for the eye of detail that the judges have. “At times they pay attention to the minutest detail to the point that it appears to be nitpicking. But that pays off, because when you see the change in the participants and how seriously they take the judges suggestions then one realises that it is worth the while.”

SHILPA NAIR ANAND

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