Jaspati Sera Dewala
Jaspati Sera Dewala | |
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 Dewala at the Hampi International Fashion Show | |
| Born | 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."
Mainstream appearances prior to 2010
Dewala's first mainstream appearance was in 2005, when she hosted the the 2005 Tarana Awards, making her the youngest person and only pornstar to have hosted the music award show. She also made several guest appearances in television shows such as Master Detective, The Life of Nirupa, and Terabyte. She participated in the second season of the realitiy TV show Smart and Beautiful in which the participants were all women with university degrees and involved in modeling or the mainstream or pornographic film industry.
In 2008, Dewala took a role in an the mainstream action adventure movie Swashbucklers of the North, which was shot in Knichus. The shooting was completed in two weeks and was released in the winter of 2008. Dewala later said of her role in the film that it was the "worst career decision she had ever made". The film was a critical and commercial flop and it was widely lampooned across Tennai. Dewala also gives the failure of that film as the reason she was not given another mainstream film role until 2010 with her casting in Shriya Eats Daal
Maintstream film career
Following the disastrous Swashbucklers of the North, Dewala was looked over for further mainstream roles until Ishta Kasturi of Sensual Nova Productions saw her performance in the Dewala's self-produced pornographic film Photograph of an Erotocist. Of Dewala's film and performance Kasturi stated:
"Dewala's writing, production, direction, and acting in the film were remarkable. Never have I seen a woman so realistically and soulfully portrayed as Dewala's Amala."
Dewala was then asked to audtion for the role of Sunny Parvati in the film Shriya Eats Daal. She was chosen for the role after only an hour of deliberation by the film's director Kanan Nakndika and the film's casting director. Following the release of the film, Dewala recieved much praise for her portrayal of Sunny Parvati and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the 2010 Film Guild Awards. She did not win the award, but her performance in the film made her a highly sought after actress and launched her mainstream career.
Dewala has since starred in numerous Kellidesh and Musidesh Tennaiite films. Some notable films Dewala has appeared in are the romance A Purple Lotus Blooms for Kaya (2011), Aayisha with Shriya Eats Daal co-star Taapsee Bhatia (2013), the docu-drama Mistress of Code (2014), the Pillow Kisses spy thriller trilogy (2014, 2015,2016), and the comedy Did I do That?.
Dewala's transition from pornographic to mainstream cinema has been noted by many fans and critics as highly successful with her performances regularly recieving high praise.
Writer
Dewala, who says she has been a fan of many Tennaiite comic series since childhood, was tutored in comic book art and storytelling by graphic novelist Subhadra Luitel. In 2007 she began writing and illustrating a comic series titled The Last Lady of Oldari. The series, an erotic post-apocalyptic science fiction action romance series was not taken up by any of the major Tennaiite publishing houses. Dewala tried to get it published with smaller independent publishers, but none of them would take the work of an untested graphic novelist, even with the endorsement of a well-known and established artist/writer like Subhadra Luitel.
Despite frequent rejections, Dewala continued to work on the series, fine tuning her artistic style and writing in the process. In 2009, encouraged by Subhadra Luitel, Dewala decided to use the popularity and resources garnered from her porngraphic career to self-publish The Last Lady of Oldari and distribute it through her online store, Jaspati's Palace. The series proved a success and the first issue of he series sold over a million copies within the first three months of publication.
The Last Lady of Oldari finished its run in 2016 and after which Dewala followed up with the science fiction series Absconded. Absconded tells the story of an alien woman who finds herself stranded on a strange world and struggles to find a place for herself among beings who either ignore or torment her. Absconded began publication in 2017. In 2019, Dewala publishd the first issue of a new children's fantasy graphic novel series titled Tannu the Beast Tamer. The series is departure from her more mature works and features a seven year old girl named Tannu who has the ability to communicate with animals and magical beasts.
Dewala's series have been recieved with generally positive responses. Fans and professional reviewers frequently comment on her realistic, believable, and relatable characters.
Activisim
In 2004, she joined and began advocating for the End FGM activism campaign which was begun by a group of several pornographic actresses from Tennai. The goals of End FGM are to provide education about the practice of female genital mutilation and advocate for its elimination worldwide. She has continued to advocate for End FGM and has visited several nations within Tyran to that end.
In 2005, Jaspati became a spokesperson for the wildlife and environemental conservation organization Wild Spaces of the World (WSW). She has also modeled for the organization on numerous occasions. While her modeling campaigns for WSW have been viewed as successful, some were banned or sensored in some places outside of Tennai. In response to the censorship and banning of her images for WSW, Dewala laughed and stated at a press conference:
"I guess some people are just afraid of the female body and take offense to it. I do not do this for them, but for all the beautiful and amazing wild places of the world and the creatures that live there."
Personal Life
In 2009, Jaspati married fellow actress and frequent co-star, Sera Mai Khanh. The two have an adopted daughter, Cuc Sera Dewala.
Filmography
Film (Pornographic)
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Lovely's Ladies in Paradise | Jaspati |
| 2001 | Harem | Jaspati |
| 2006 | Virtual Sutri Apsara Jaspati Dewala | Jaspati |
| 2006 | The Botanist | Sinda |
| 2006 | Jaspati Adores Prasha | Jaspati |
| 2008 | The Flipside of Jaspati | Jaspati |
| 2009 | Jaspati's Amazing Journey | Jaspati |
| 2009 | Disrobement | Leela |
| 2009 | Other Side of the Moon | Bhatia |
| 2010 | Photograph of an Ertocist | Davinder Sera |
| 2012 | Teyvam | Teyvam |
Film (Mainstream)
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Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role(s) | Director | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Shriya Eats Daal | Sunny Parvati | Kanan Nakndika | Chatalayam |
| 2011 | A Purple Lotus Blooms for Kaya | Kaya | Parmindar Sera Walar | Hallatti |
| 2013 | Aayisha | Thushana | Jemilla Ankavi | Samil Kelugu |
| 2014 | Mistress of Code | Kalani Kausala | Cithara Inimai | Samil |
| 2014 | Pillow Kisses: Kiss and Gone | Manprem Dhori (Agent 777) | Sumandeep Sani | Hallatti |
| 2015 | Pillow Kisses 2: Platinum Kisses | Manprem Dhori (Agent 777) | Sumandeep Sani | Hallatti |
| 2015 | Vethana | Meera | Sumanthra Kaashini | Samil |
| 2016 | Pillow Kisses 3:Last Kiss Before Dawn | Manprem Dhori (Agent 777) | Sumandeep Sani | Hallatti |
| 2017 | Did I do That?' | Nivaani | Akilaya Shaallina | Samil |
Television
| Year | Serial | Role | Channel | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Tarana Awards | Host | DevalaTV | |
| 2006 | Master Detective | Narcotics Officer | Monsoon | 1 episode (Deal at Midnight) |
| 2006 | The Life of Nirupa | Laxmi | GalaTV | 3 episodes in season 4 (Partly-Cloudy, Typhoons and Thunder, Sunny and Glorious) |
| 2007 | Terabyte | Virus 33 "Kamala" | Stellar | 1 episode (Virus 33) |
| 2008 | Smart and Beautiful 2 | Herself | Monsoon | |
| 2009 | Wild in the Jungle | Narrator and host | Tennai Geographic |
Web Series
| Year | Name | Role | Platform | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Diary of a Porn Star | Herself | Karma Hatra | Biographical web series |
Bibliography
- The Last Lady of Oldari (2009-2016)
- Absconded (2017-Present)
- Tannu the Beast Tamer (2019-Present)