2008 Woodie Awards
Spotlight: Sara Kiener '06—Since U been gone…to Bollywood!
Sara Kiener '06 tells The Mac Weekly about brushes with celebrities in Mumbai, reveals her passion for dancing, and shouts out to her first- year roommate.
By: Nora Clancy
Issue date: 3/24/06 Section: Features
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You're from West Hartford. What's it like in Connecticut?
I don't feel very nostalgic about it. I lived there till I was 18 but I would come and visit Minnesota all the time. I have family here; my parents grew up in St. Louis Park. They met at Camp Ramah, a Jew camp in Wisconsin. Needless to say, they're divorced now. I went to the same Camp Ramah for five years when I was a little kid...I just don't feel that connected to [home]. I'm really connected to my parents and my family, but that's all I go back for. My other friends I visit wherever they are in school. But I don't go back to, like, party in West Hartford.
How did summer camp treat you?
It's just like Wet Hot American Summer. I had one roommate who didn't shower for a month. And then I went to a Camp Ramah in Palmer, Massachusetts. So I guess I am kind of an “east-coast Jew,” but you wouldn't know if you looked at me. You'd have to have at least 10 conversations with me to really get it, I think.
You spent J-term in Mumbai working in Bollywood. Why Bollywood?
My dad was really into Bollywood. So I started watching, and I thought they were really long but I was really into the dancing and the makeup and the costumes and all that good stuff. I hadn't been out of the country in five years and I was, like, suffocating. I just found it on jobsabroad.com, and I said: “Okay, I'm gonna take out loans and go.”I just applied for it, and gave them a lot of money. So it didn't take much. I visited sets, shadowed directors, met photographers, actors and actresses, and went to a Bollywood-styled wedding.
Where did you live?
I lived in a hostel at the University of Mumbai. There was a medical internship at the same time. My roommate was a fashion student from L.A., doing the Bollywood thing too, but more the fashion side.
I don't feel very nostalgic about it. I lived there till I was 18 but I would come and visit Minnesota all the time. I have family here; my parents grew up in St. Louis Park. They met at Camp Ramah, a Jew camp in Wisconsin. Needless to say, they're divorced now. I went to the same Camp Ramah for five years when I was a little kid...I just don't feel that connected to [home]. I'm really connected to my parents and my family, but that's all I go back for. My other friends I visit wherever they are in school. But I don't go back to, like, party in West Hartford.
How did summer camp treat you?
It's just like Wet Hot American Summer. I had one roommate who didn't shower for a month. And then I went to a Camp Ramah in Palmer, Massachusetts. So I guess I am kind of an “east-coast Jew,” but you wouldn't know if you looked at me. You'd have to have at least 10 conversations with me to really get it, I think.
You spent J-term in Mumbai working in Bollywood. Why Bollywood?
My dad was really into Bollywood. So I started watching, and I thought they were really long but I was really into the dancing and the makeup and the costumes and all that good stuff. I hadn't been out of the country in five years and I was, like, suffocating. I just found it on jobsabroad.com, and I said: “Okay, I'm gonna take out loans and go.”I just applied for it, and gave them a lot of money. So it didn't take much. I visited sets, shadowed directors, met photographers, actors and actresses, and went to a Bollywood-styled wedding.
Where did you live?
I lived in a hostel at the University of Mumbai. There was a medical internship at the same time. My roommate was a fashion student from L.A., doing the Bollywood thing too, but more the fashion side.
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