Aditi Saigal aka Dot is an actor and musician who will make her acting debut in Zoya Akhtar’s film Archie. She is a musician who became an overnight success in February 2017 when she uploaded her singing video on YouTube and got 35000 plays within a very short span of time.
Wiki/Biography
Aditi was born in 1999 (age 22 years; as of 2022) in India. She loved singing and writing songs from an early age. Her schooling was done in India and later she went to Bangor University, Wales for pursuing a degree in music and creative writing.
Physical Appearance
Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Eye Colour: Black
Family
Parents & Siblings
Aditi is the daughter of Amit Saigal and Shena Gamat. Her father was a rock musician who founded Rock Street Journal which became India’s first rock magazine. Her father went on a vacation to Goa and died after drowning in the sea on 5 January 2012.
Aditi’s father Amit Saigal
Her mother is an actor and co-founder of the Theater company Barefoot.
Career
Singing
Aditi commenced her YouTube channel on 29 August 2010. However, her singing journey commenced when she joined some musicians from One World College of Music and they began singing as a band. She talked about that experience and said,
It was interesting, it was with some of my friends: a singer and flautist and a bassist, guitarist. We all contributed with a bunch of songs, so it wasn’t just my songs. I think it was a bit more pop-oriented, but I can’t really put a finger on that. I don’t really get the genre thing, anyway.’
she uploaded her first singing video on 22 February 2017 which got her overwhelming traction on YouTube; after which she built a decent follower base. After this, she received plenty of cover requests but she turned them down saying,
If somebody asks me, I just smile and go, ‘Haha, yeah that’s a nice song’. I only do things when I really feel like it.’
She released her own album Khamotion on 16 July 2021 which featured songs that she originally wrote for her final year project at Bangor University.
Film
In 2022, she is signed up for her first film project in Zoya Akhtar’s film Archie which will release on Netflix in 2023. This film will be starring Sharukh Khan’s daughter Suhana, Boney Kapoor’s daughter Khushi, Amitabh Bachchan’s grandson Agastya along with actor Mihir Ahuja, Vedang Raina, Aditi Saigal, and Yuvraj Menda.
A still from Archi’s first trailer revealing the cast of the movie including Suhana Khan, Khushi Kapoor, Aditi Saigal, and others
Controversies
- Her upcoming film Archies was trolled after its first teaser was out. Twitter was flooded with tweets that called this film a multiverse of nepotism. The film is also trolled for being a launchpad for three Bollywood star kids with a story from a famous comic book.
Favourites
- Songwriter: Regina Spektor and KT Tunstall
- Singer: Peggy Lee and Etta James
Facts/Trivia
- Aditi started songwriting when she was just 12 years old.