Saroja and Pasanga Vega - Economist becomes Actress

‘Saroja’ and ‘Pasanga’ fame Vega Tamotia was born in India but was raised in Sydney, Australia. She did her schooling and college there. She is an economist by profession. She had done lot of courses in acting throughout her high school and college and also done many such courses from prestigious colleges. After finishing her college studies in Sydney, she came to Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore for an exchange program. She is very passionate about acting and her work. After coming to India, she is into a professional theatre, Broadway Drama Troupe, Mumbai, for two years. She had done many plays and dramas. It was on one such day she was spotted by Venkat Prabhu for Saroja.

After acting as a hep, cool and even arrogant 12th Standard girl in the interesting adventure and fun flick ‘Saroja’, she has played a totally different role of a kindergarten teacher in a small town in ‘Pasanga’. Portrayal of her role in the film is fantastic and it is a mixture of emotions- angry in one moment, happy in the next moment and it is very bubbly. Her acting skills were put to test in this movie which yielded her due credit for her performance. This film has given her the break she wanted. Her current projects are ‘Housefull’ in Telugu, ‘Aamras’ in Hindi and ‘I am God’, a short film in English. Vega wants to portray interesting and new characters in her future ventures and work with exciting teams. About doing glamour roles she said “Yeah, why not? I will do glamorous roles. According to me, glamour is not necessarily revealing. Glamour is all about attitude, body language and not about wearing skimpy clothes”. Russell Crowe, Aamir Khan, Kamal and Surya are her favourite actors while Julia Roberts, Kajol and Asin are her favourite actresses.

The latest news about Vega is she wants to do dubbing in her own voice for her part from her next film irrespective of the language of the film...more