Beau­ty queen and first run­ner-up to the Miss In­dia TT crown Dishaana Sew­dass plays the lead role of Kiara in the the­atre pro­duc­tion of Niyantran: Se­cret Con­troller. To­geth­er with a cast of tal­ent­ed ac­tors, Sew­dass is now head­ing for the stage at Chin­maya Mis­sion, Cal­cut­ta#1, Freeport on Sep­tem­ber 28, at 6.30 pm.

The show, which is be­ing pro­duced by Na­tion­al Lo­tus The­atre (NLT) and di­rect­ed by Bal­raj Har­ry, is a lo­cal the­atre pro­duc­tion that con­tains songs, mu­sic and dance. It was played for au­di­ences in Ch­agua­nas, Rio Claro, San Fer­nan­do and Cou­va.

Speak­ing about the pro­duc­tion, her eyes gleam­ing with ex­cite­ment, Sew­dass said: “It is a sto­ry of love and be­tray­al. It tells of an un­der­world char­ac­ter named Tiger whose wife died in child­birth. The ba­by sur­vived and Tiger took the child to a la­dy from his past named Mi­ra, a de­vot­ed in­di­vid­ual.”

Con­tin­u­ing about Se­cret Con­troller, she said: “The child grew up to be a beau­ti­ful young la­dy played by yours tru­ly. My char­ac­ter is Kiara a dancer who fell in love with a movie pro­duc­er.”

Asked to quote one of the meaty lines in the play, Sew­dass said: “Mum­my, peo­ple in this vil­lage look at me as if l am an alien. In school, they stare at me moth­er. Why? Is it that my fa­ther has done some­thing wrong? Is he a crim­i­nal?”

But Kiara’s moth­er can­not say that her fa­ther in this play is a crim­i­nal and has been in­volved in many wrong­do­ings.

NLT, she said, is do­ing this pro­duc­tion to raise funds for the build­ing of the Chin­maya Mis­sion Col­lege.

Sew­dass is no stranger to the stage as she was the first run­ner-up to the Miss In­dia T&T Pageant, and the first run­ner-up to the Miss Sari queen in Guade­loupe. She was al­so fi­nal­ist of the re­cent Miss La Riene Rive con­test in the Prime Min­is­ter’s Best Vil­lage Tro­phy Com­pe­ti­tion.

Pas­sion­ate about her cul­ture, a mem­ber of the Princes Town The­atre Work­shop, Sew­dass learnt In­di­an dance from Michael Sa­likram and al­so See­ta Per­sad.

Sew­dass now has her own dance group at the Rio Claro Vedic School, and is film­ing a tele­vi­sion se­ries which will be aired af­ter Di­vali (Oc­to­ber 27).

Oth­er cast mem­bers in Niyantran: Se­cret Con­troller are Sunil Ram­dass, Christo­pher Raghu­nanan, Christi­na Ram­goolam, Tr­is­hana Sookhan, Reynold Sew­dass, Frankyn Har­ry, Vishal Per­sad and Ka­ri­na Ma­haraj.