Shivani Tanksale is a Mumbai-based theatre director and actress who appears in Bollywood films and advertisements.
Personal life
She has been acting in plays since her school days at Green Lawns High School in Mumbai. She won several state and national level competitions. She is the granddaughter of politician Vasant Sathe. She was married to actor Sumeet Vyas. The couple later got divorced in 2017.
Career
Theatre
She was noticed by a theatre group called 'Ekjute' while acting in a college play. People thought of her as a vixen in college as she is insanely beautiful. She then formally started working with this Nadira Zaheer Babbar's group. Then 'Q Theatre Productions' called her and she did her first professional play,"The Lucky Ones".Some of her major plays are The President is Coming, "Love on the Brink", The Vagina Monologues, Ji Jaisi Aapki Marzi, Aisa Kehte Hain, All About Women, Bade Miyan Deewane, Abhi Na Jaao Chhod Kar and A Funny Thing Called Love. Apart from acting, she even directs plays and wants to be a full-time director one day. She has directed Namak Mirch and The Shehenshah of Azeemo with Sumeet Vyas, both produced by Akarsh Khurana's Akvarious. Namak Mirch...More about Shivani Tanksale...