Raipur. Raj Kundra, who is trapped in the porn film scandal, is in the headlines these days. Her films’ actress-director Gehana Vashistha is also in the news. Very few people know that Gehna’s real name is Vandana Tiwari and she did her schooling in Chirmiri. The media spoke to the teacher and his family, who taught him for four years.
Korea is a small district of Chhattisgarh. Chirmiri is a place in this area with coal mines. South Eastern Coalfields Limited, SECL has its mines in Chirmiri. Ravindra Tiwari used to work in the Bartunga mine of the same company. Ravindra had a daughter named Vandana Tiwari. The same Vandana Tiwari has now become an actor-director of PORN films and has named her Gehna Vashisht. Media explores the story of simple Vandana Tiwari becoming glamorous jewel Vashisht.
Maths-Science student wanted to become an engineer
Vandana’s entire childhood was spent in Chirmiri due to her father working in the mines. In 2001, she took admission in the 9th class in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School here. She continued to study here till 12th. He had taken Physics-Chemistry-Maths subjects. Jagdish Singh, the lecturer of the school who taught Vandana, tells that she was a sharp minded student. His goal was to study engineering, so he took PCM and secured 71 per cent marks in 12th.
Didn’t seem inclined towards acting
Jagdish Singh says that cultural programs used to be held in the school during that time. There used to be dance-song competitions too, but he never saw Vandana participate in all these. Never felt that his acting was inclined towards the film world.
never came back
In 2006, Vandana went to Bhopal for admission in Engineering College. After that she never came back to Chirmiri. He had dreamed of becoming an engineer and to fulfill it, he enrolled in college. His parents and relatives stayed here. After this, Vandana’s chirmiri commuting decreased and now she has not come here for many years.
Modeling, Telugu Movies, Web Series and then Soft Porn
While studying in the engineering college in Bhopal, Vandana was inclined towards modeling. Boldness came in Vandana during college life. She started participating in beauty contests. Slowly she started getting modeling offers. During this time she moved to Mumbai and changed her name to Jewel Vashistha.
There was also a contest of bikini beauty. In that Vandana secured first position at Asia level. After that he didn’t look back. Did some Bollywood bold movies. Then during the bold scene in South Indian films, he started getting work in web series as well. She appeared in Raj Kundra’s production. After working in erotic short films, she also started directing films called soft porn.
