# Suman Sridhar

Suman Sridhar is a singer, songwriter, and actor. Sridhar works in music, performance art, theatre and film. Suman is trained in Bharat Natyam classical dance and Indian Classical music and studied Western Classical Music, Women's & Gender Studies and Visual Arts from 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. She co-produced and acted in her debut feature film Ajeeb Aashiq/Strange Love by filmmaker Natasha Mendonca which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2016 and received the Bright Future Award nomination and the jury prize at the Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg International Queer Film Festival. Suman's music act The Black Mamba The Black Mamba 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 piece Land of the Breasted Woman won a Sesc_Videobrasil residency prize at the Wexner Center for the Arts (USA) and had a screening at the 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.

## Discography

Suman Sridhar released the album STD by Sridhar/Thayil in 2012.

### Filmography

| Year | Film | Songs | Language | Label |
| 2016 | Ajeeb Aashiq / Strange Love | Music Director | English/Hindi | Transient Films |
| 2016 | Jaundya Na Balasaheb | "Mona Darling" | Marathi | Zee Studios |
| 2015 | Bombay Velvet | "Fifi" | Hindi | Sony Music |
| 2012 | Talaash | "Muskaanein Jhooti Hai" | Hindi | T-series |
| 2011 | Shaitan | "Hawa Hawai", "Khoya Khoya Chand" | Hindi | Apple Music |
| 2011 | 404 Error Not Found | "Kya Dekh Raha Hai" | Hindi | Saga Music |
| 2011 | Luv Ka The End | "Tonight" | English | Apple Music |

## Awards

| Year | Award | Category | Role | Result | Ref. |
| 2017 | Sesc_Videobrasil | Residency award at Wexner Center for the Arts for Ajeeb Aashiq/Strange Love | Co-producer, Lead Actor, Music director | Won | {} |
| 2017 | LSF Hamburg International Queer Film Festival | Jury Prize, Best Film for Ajeeb Aashiq/Strange Love | Co-producer, Lead Actor, Music director | Won | {} |
| 2013 | Times of India Film Awards | Best Female Playback Singer | Singer | Nominated | |
| 2013 | MTV Video Music Awards India | Best Female Indie Artist | Singer-Songwriter-Producer | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Jack Daniel's Rock Awards | Band of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Female Vocalist | Singer-Songwriter-Producer | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Femina Women's Awards | Music Category | Singer-Songwriter | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Mirchi Music Awards | Upcoming Female Vocalist of the Year | Singer | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Color Screen Awards | Best Female Playback Singer | Singer | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Jack Daniel's Rock Awards | Emerging Band of the Year | Singer-Songwriter-Producer | Won | |