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Shalini Kantayya on FOX's "On the Lot" |
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Shalini Kantayya currently works as a freelance director. Shalini Kantayya is from Brooklyn, New York and currently lives in Hartford, Connecticut. Shalini Kantayya is 30 years old.
Shalini Kantayya says, "As a first generation Indian American, I grew up straddling traditions, languages, and cultures. My mother raised us as a single-parent, and I learned quickly about hard work, determination, and tenacity. When I was nineteen, I visited a Buddhist monastery in South India, and knew there were experiences that I could not describe in words. I fell madly in love with visual images and began to see the world in a new way. After college, a year later, I quit my job, charged a video camera, and took off across the Caribbean and West Africa to make a documentary. For years, I slaved at every post-production house in New York City and would do ANYTHING to learn my craft. In ten years of living between the NYC indie film industry and Bollywood, I have filmed a Bengal tiger in the wild, interviewed His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, and made hip hop videos in the depths of Brooklyn. There is nowhere I wouldn't go, no mountain I wouldn't climb, in pursuit of a compelling story."
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