Divya Palat

Divya Palat is an Award winning Producer and Director for theatre plays like -"A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks" and was a Hindi actress who has done many films such as Masti with Vivek Oberoi, Dhund with Apurva Agnihotri, Kuch Naa Kaho with Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan, Krishna Cottage with Sohail Khan, Dil Bechara Pyaar Ka Mara with actress Mallika Kapoor. She is from the royal family of Cochin State. Her great grand father built the Durbar Hall in Cochin and the Town Hall in Trichur and it was during his time that the roads to Munnar, Trichur and Chittur were constructed and macadamised. Her other great grandfather Mr. R. M. Palat was a Minister under self government. Apart from this her other relatives include diplomats (K. P. S. Menon, P. A Menon), Generals (Lt. Gen. Candeth, Brigadier Sankaran Nair), Privy Councillors (Sir C. Madhavan Nair) and others.

As her father was periodically transferred, Divya studied in schools in Mumbai, New York and in Delhi. After completing her schooling she went to Stanford in California before returning to India. In India, she began her acting career in a TV series Captain Vyom. Prior to this she had acted in several plays including Sound of Music and Legend of Ram.

In early 2000s she set up a Production Company, "Balancing Act Productions" that has produced several highly acclaimed plays including the Award winning " A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks", "The Verdict", "The Graduate" "Love Bytes", "Starring U & Me!"and "The Wizard of Oz".

In 2006 she began making short films and teaching short films. She has also branched out into Hindi plays.

She wrote a play based on the survivors of the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks entitled 'A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks.' This play was ranked among the top 3 plays at the Edinburgh Fringe festival '08 from among over 35,600 plays and she was awarded the Top Honours for Outstanding direction at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2010.

Palat travels extensively. She is devoted to her cocker spaniel Cookie. She spends her spare time stopping her husband watching Manchester United with her husband Aditya Hitkari. She is also into travelling and visits exotic destinations periodically. She loves adventure sports and is an avid bungee jumper, water skier, parachutist and white water rafter. She has swam with sharks, sat on elephants and ridden on dolphins.^{[citation needed]}

She has a sister Nikhila Palat who is married to well known television and movie actor Vivaan Bhatena

External links

Divya Palat Official Page

• Official site
• Divya Palat at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Magellan, Ferdinand
Alternative names	Magalhães, Fernão de (Portuguese); Magallanes, Fernando de (Spanish)
Short description	Sea explorer
Date of birth	Early 1480
Place of birth	Sabrosa, Portugal
Date of death	27 April 1521
Place of death	Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines