COMPERE / ANCHOR  
   
I am a compere for stage shows and anchor for TV shows. I also aspire to be a TV/radio newscaster/TV interviewer/TV host for talk shows and the like. With my background and experience, I believe I can handle most anything, be it for shows dealing with social issues, or relating to culture, women, children, teenagers, music, cinema, travel and the like.
I am fluent in English (with variations in accents- British, American or Indian) and Hindi.

 
(English and Hindi)
   
Terence Lewis’s Dance Shows in Goa and Mumbai – (Dec 2008, March 2009)
   
The Army Equestrian Display programme for the Mumbai Festival (Jan 2006)
   
Professional stage programmes for marriages and other cultural events etc.
   
15 shows from 1998 to 2011 –- in Mumbai, Agra, Jaipur and USA. (Most recently, Feb 2011)
   
‘Arangetram’ performance of Ruchi Lodha.
   
Sangit Kala Kendra’s (Birla group) variety programmes (1998 and 2000).
   
The Children’s Day celebration 1998 at the Oberoi Hotel.
   
Charity shows for social welfare organizations –(2000 onwards)
   
The Supermodel of India conferences.

Where required, I had written the script for the above programmes
Terence Lewis's Dance Shows
 
 
Arangetram
 
 
 
ANCHOR  
   
Conceptualized and hosted 2 interview-based shows of ‘Teen Talk’ with teenagers on Doordarshan.  
   
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
 

‘ABCDE’ (announcing, broadcasting, compering, dubbing, e-narration) workshop with Noel Keymer
Intensive dubbing workshop with Noel Keymer
Voice-over workshop with Khodus Wadia
‘Media Image Workshop’ – honed skills for anchoring, presentation, interviewing, news-reading…and the like…for radio and television…with Sheila Chaman
 
   
OTHER SPEECH-RELATED ACTIVITIES  

Given elocution and speech training to children of Greenlawns High School
Judged various oratory and elocution competitions at school level.
Helped to run “The Little Actor’s Club” through workshops
 
   
 
Contact :- Cell: 9821139950.  Email id: veena@dhandhia.com