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When Quirky Characters Come to Life
The Royal-ish Crew of Bagradoo
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Come join the Royal-ish Crew of Bagradoo! Meet nature vlogger Lily Ray, an awkward tween with an oversized backpack; Al the Pal, her robot diary with a joke button; Pashmina, a fashionista princess; Strike, a master of disguise; Quill, the wise old naturalist; Lady Devi, the scheming charmer; and Sir Vipin, Lady Devi’s side kick!
Lily is not exactly one of the popular kids at her suburban middle school. Unknown to her, a royal invitation to the faraway island kingdom of Bagradoo is about to turn her humdrum life into the adventure of a lifetime.
Welcome to Bagradoo Palace – a maze of adventure and protocol, where Lily does not make the most fashionable first impression. But on noticing strange things happening in the palace, Lily learns that there are secrets to life on the island that are about to fall into the wrong hands!
Accompanied by a fashionable princess, a wacky professor, a thief in disguise and her sarcastic robot diary, will Lily’s zany crew save Bagradoo?
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Speakers
Amrita Gandhi
Amrita Gandhi is a former travel host whose series on NDTV Good Times called Royal Reservation took her to dozens of palaces around India as a house guest. Here she saw up close, beautiful palaces, known and less known, their history, heirlooms, costumes, vintage clothing, and the culture of the towns and former kingdoms they were in. She also learnt local recipes, often taught to her by former maharanis and maharajas themselves. But being a travel show was also a lot of hard work, and after days being on location, the best part of Amrita’s work was writing the script for her stories.
Amrita also went on to write a nonfiction lifestyle book called Live Like a Maharaja: How to Turn your Home into a Palace, published by Penguin India.
Amrita is a trained stage actor who has appeared in several Bay Area productions and Shakespeare festivals, including Marina in Pericles and Kate in Taming of the Shrew, in addition to working in small independent theatre productions.
Amrita has, since her move to California, been an on camera host for the NDTV series Coffee Break USA where she is in conversation with inspiring Indian Americans.
Arya Cheruvatath
Arya is a 10th grade IGCSE student with a passion for reading, theatre, writing, and debate. She loves diving into stories, performing on stage, and sharing her thoughts through writing and lively discussions.
