Puja Mohindra - News, Reel, & Resume
Puja Mohindra - Graduate of the A.C.T. MFA Acting program
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Recent News!
 
 
  • Recently played Tara in the comedy,"A Widow of No Importance" at East West Players.

The show was the LA Time's "Critic's Choice," Backstage's "Critic's Pick, LA Weekly says "GO!," and "Ovation Recommended.


  • Wrapped work on the George Miller animated feature, "Happy Feet 2"

  • Wrapped work on the Tyler Posey Film, "Taco Shop"

  • Wrapped worked as a lead in the feature, "Silhouettes" shot in Chicago


  • "Second Best" screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, USC First Look Festival, and the Chicago South Asian Film Festival
 
  • Puja co-starred in the new JJ Abrams show, "Undercovers" on NBC.  
Check out the episode here.
 
 
  • "Foreign,"  the dramatic & emotional journey of a young Indian bride, recently screened at the following festivals:
 
 
Indiafest in Los Angeles
South Asian Film Festival in Goa, India
Venice Film Festival in L.A.
Mississippi International Film Festival
Yes India in New Zealand
 
             Read reviews of her work in "Foreign" here. 
 
 
  • Recently recurred on 7 episodes of the CBS drama,   "Three Rivers" as the smart & professional EMT, Lori Goel
 
 
 
  •  "I'm Not Like That No More" screened at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival.  Puja played the sassy-and-sweet-yet-dim-witted partygirl, Trixie, alongside comedians, Paul Rodriguez & Felipe Esparza, winner of "Last Comic Standing"
 
 
 
  • Recently appeared in the Series Premiere of the new Jerry Bruckheimer show, "Miami Medical," playing Nishta, a young woman who tragically loses her fiance in a car accident
 
 
  • "Second Best,"a coming-of-age story in which she played the sweet & smart Taila Chatterjee, was selected to screen at the Angelus Student Film Awards and also screen at Paramount Studios at the film event "Six By Seven."
 
 
  • "Masterpieces" was selected to screen at the Newport
    Beach Film Festival in April 2010
 
 
  • "One Step Forward & Two Steps Back" was selected to
   screen at the Riverside International Film Festival in April 2010
 
 
  • Recently shot a national McDonald's SnackWraps commercial. 
 
 
  • On stage, Puja was last seen in the the comedy, "A Life of Her Own," presented by USC's Graduate Dramatic Writing program.   Puja played Tara, a feisty yet vulnerable  girl in Bombay who dreams of studying writing in the U.S., while her mother frets about her daughter's possible spinsterhood.
 
 
  • Performed in the The New Short Fiction Series' presentation of "The Name of Longing," featuring work by fiction writer, Shubha Venugopal in Feb. 2010
 
 
 
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