Jaspati Sera Dewala

Jaspati Sera Dewala
Dewala at the Hampi International Fashion Show
Born	(1981-05-13) 13 May 1981 Chandigarh, Tennai
Occupation	Actress, former pornographic actress
Years active	2001-2013 (pornography) 2010-present (mainstream)
Spouse(s)	Sera Mai Khanh (m. 2009)
Children	1

Jaspati Sera Dewala (born 13 May 1981), is a model and actress in the Tennaiite film industry and a former pornographic actress. She has used the stage name Alakana Sera. She was Lovely magazine's model of the year in 2003, was a contract performer for Sutri Entertainment, and was named as one of the 10 top porn stars of 2010.

She has played roles in indpedent maintstream events, films, and television series. Her first mainstream appearance was in 2005, when she worked as the host of the 2005 Tarana Awards. In 2009, she was the host and narrator for the children's nature limited series Wild in the Jungle.

In 2010 she made her mainstream film premiere in the highly successful film Shriya Eats Daal playing the role of Sunny Parvati. Her performance in the film was widely lauded and led to her appearing in many more maintstream films. After 2013, Dewala shifted her focus to mainstream cinema.

Apart from her acting career she has been involved in activism campaigns such as End FGM and has also modeled for and is a spokesperson for the environmental and wildlife conservation organization Wild Spaces of the World (WSP).

Early life

Jaspati was born in Chandigarh to Sikh nayak parents, Premleen and Bisanpreet Dewala. She has three younger siblings, sisters Madchuchandra and Anjila and a brother, Tarjap. As the heir to a Sikh nayak family, Jaspati was educated at the Guru Ujaala Sera Academy where she completed her primary and secondary education. During her childhood, she showed a great interest in wildlife conservation and Tennaiite comics which carried over into her post-secondary education. At the age of 17, Dewala enrolled in the zoology program at Kaur Nisha University and was also tutored in comic art and story writing by renowned author and comic artist Subhadra Luitel.

While attending university, at the age of 20, she auditioned for and was given a role in her first pornographic film. At the age of 21 Dewala graduated with her Science Junior in Zoology.

Pornographic career

In 2001, at the age of 20, Jaspati began posing for Lovely magazine and signed on to her first pornographic film with Sutri Entertainment. During her first year modeling for Lovely, she was named model of the month for the May 2001 issue and was featured in the Diwala edtition of Pivot as a Pivot Yakshini. She has also appeared in many other pornographic magazines in Tennai and abroad.

In 2003, she was named Lovely "Model of the Year" and starred in the video Lovely's Ladies in Paradise alongside (xxx), (xxx), and (xxx). In 2005 she became a spokesperson for Devati Sutra's internet sales.

Also in 2005, Dewala signed a three-year contract with Sutri Entertainment with which she transtitioned into the world of hardcore pornography, stating that she would only do lesbian scenes. Her first movie released was titled Jaspati and was released in December 2005. Her next movie, Virtual Sutri Apsara Jaspati Dewala, was the first interactive title for Dewala, who was the first Sutri Apsara make such a movie. The film took a month to film, and won her her first Malhotra Award (Best Interactive DVD). She followed this with Jaspati Adores Prasha, which featured her first on-screen female ejaculation, and the The Botanist co-starring (xxx) and (xxx).

After her initial contract with Sutri expired in 2007, she resigned with Sutri for another six films. Her films under her new contract lead her to be nominated for three (out of six) Malhotra awards in 2009 in addtion to being the choice for Performer of the Year. In 2008, she appeared in her first male-female title The Flipside of Jaspati which would be one of only two male-female titles she would perform in.

In 2009, Sutri released her only movie performing with with only a single other actress Jaspati's Amazing Journey. Her final release under contract with Sutri, "Disrobement", made her exclusive to performing with just one actress, (xxx), who subsequntly became her wife.

In November 2009, she announced the launch of her own studio, Sultry Pictures, with (xxx) as her partner. With her new venue, Dewala announced her plans to write,direct, and create her own brand of pornographic movies with Sutri Entertainment as her distributor. Her first independent production, Other Side of the Moon was released in April 2009, and was debuted at the Koldari Sutric Museum. She produced several other self-produced features such as Photograph of an Eroticist (2010) which was nominated for multiple Malhotra awards and Teyvam (2012) which featured her first anal sex scene.

No longer exclusive to Sutri, Dewala began working with other studios and performers since 2009. She leveraged her online popularity by striking deals with various pornographic and non-pornographic firms. In 2009, alongsidethe launch of her studio, she opened the online retail store Jaspati's Palace. The store features her own line of clothing, lingerie, sex toys, erotic graphic novels, and other Jaspati branded products.

Dewala was voted number 10 (up from 35 in 2007) on Sensuals "Top 100 porn stars" list. She has also been recognized in the rankings of numerous other magazines and websites where she frequently appeared among the top performers in the pornographic industry.

In 2013, she announced her retirement from the porn industry stating "I am blessed that I had such a lovely group of fans and supporters. I have moved on from where I was (the porn industry). I don't have any plans as of now to return there."

Personal Life

In 2009, Jaspati married fellow pornographic actress and freqent co-star, Sera Mai Khanh. The two have an adopted daughter, Cuc Sera Dewala.