Meet our Finalists – 2023
We are excited to reveal the finalists for the Eastern Eye Arts Culture and Theatre Awards (ACTAs), showcasing the very best of South
Asian talent in the creative industries from literature, film, television, theatre, music, poetry, photography, dance and visual arts.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR ACTA FINALISTS!
Anjana Vasan
Killing Eve and We Are Lady Parts
Asif Khan
Jabala and the Jinn’
Ayesha Dharker
The Father and the Assassin and Chasing Hares
Bassam Tariq
Mogul Mowgli
British Film Institute,
Satyajit Ray: The Language of Film
Charithra Surya Chandran,
Bridgerton
Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE
Do You See Words in Rainbows” Installation
Dinesh Dhamija
Book It! How Dinesh Dhamija built and sold online travel agency
eBookers for £247m
Dr Bharti Parmar
Khadi installation
Esh Alladi
The Overseas Student
Hafsa Zayyan
We are all Birds of Uganda
Hiran Abeysekera
Life of Pi
Indhu Rubasingham MBE
The Father and the Assassin
Jaivant Patel,
Waltzing The Blue God Show
Kiranpal Singh Deoora
Indian Classical Music
Komal Amin
The Lazarus Project
Maanuv Thiara
Love N Stuf
Marina Wheeler
Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
'Masterji’ Maganbhai Patel
Photographer
Maya Sondhi
DI Ray
Mona Dash
‘Let us look Elsewhere’
Neema Shah,
Kololo Hill
Nitin Sawhney CBE
Musician, Producer and Composer
Parminder Nagra
DI Ray
Rish Shah
Ms Marvel
Riz Ahmed,
Mogul Mowgli
Saachi Sen
Singer-songwriter
Ranvir Singh
TV presenter and journalist
Reeta Chakrabarti
journalist and news correspondent
Reshma Ruia
‘Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness’
Sagar Arya
The Father and the Assassin
Sagar Radia
Good Karma Hospital
Sangita Myska
Sangita Myska on LBC
Sathnam Sanghera
‘Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain’
Shreena Patel
'Mahadev'
Simon Friend Entertainment
Life of Pi
Subathra Subramanium
Plastic Drastic Fantastic
Swati Natekar
Singer
Syreeta Kumar
Life of Pi
The National Trust
'Illuminating the history of Empire’
Urja Desai Thakore
Kattam Katti
Zainab Hasan
Chasing Hares