Anjli Mohindra

Anjli Mohindra
Birth date:	20 February 1990
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Rani Chandra, Queen of the Skithra, Mechanoid Queen
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2008-14, 2019-present
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Anjli Mohindra (born 20 February 1990) played Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Although the character of Rani was fifteen, Mohindra was actually nineteen when she took the role. Rani was the actress' first ongoing TV role after one-off appearances in shows such as Coronation Street. She also appeared in a 2009 episode of Law & Order: UK alongside Freema Agyeman, and had a recurring guest role in the adult-oriented series Beaver Falls.

Soon after playing Rani, in February 2012, she appeared as a new character, Gabriella Dominicci, in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Brand Management, an episode of the Bernice Summerfield box set Road Trip.

In 2015, she starred in Russell T Davies' Channel 4 drama series 'Cucumber' playing a character named Veronica Chandra, sharing a surname with Rani, whom Davies created. Though likely an intentional reference to the character, this is unconfirmed.

She also played Jyoti Cutler in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story Scavenger, and Maris in the Gallifrey audio story Evolution.

Additionally, she narrated the Sarah Jane Adventures audiobook Judgement Day, the SJA webcomics Monster Hunt, Return of the Krulius, Defending Bannerman Road and the SJA video games Plants, Plant and Animal Habitats, Teeth and Eating and Rocks and Soils.

Mohindra later played the Queen of the Skithra in the 2020 Doctor Who television story Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror.

A year later she appeared in the Behind the Sofa special feature segment on The Collection Season 8 Blu-Ray Box Set alongside her partner Sacha Dhawan.

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror - Queen of the Skithra

The Sarah Jane Adventures

As Rani Chandra

• The Day of the Clown
• Secrets of the Stars
• The Mark of the Berserker
• The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
• Enemy of the Bane
• Prisoner of the Judoon
• The Mad Woman in the Attic
• The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
• The Eternity Trap
• Mona Lisa's Revenge
• The Gift
• The Nightmare Man
• The Vault of Secrets
• Death of the Doctor
• The Empty Planet
• Lost in Time
• Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
• Sky
• The Curse of Clyde Langer
• The Man Who Never Was

Special Releases

• From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love

Video Games

• Plants
• Plant and Animal Habitats
• Teeth and Eating
• Rocks and Soils

Webcasts

Doctor Who: Lockdown!

• Farewell, Sarah Jane

Daleks!

• Planet of the Mechanoids - Mechanoid Queen
• The Deadly Ally - Mechanoid Queen
• Day of Reckoning - Mechanoid Queen

Webcomics

• Monster Hunt
• Return of the Krulius
• Defending Bannerman Road

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• Scavenger - Jyoti Cutler
• Aimed at the Body - Flora
• Lightspeed - Yan Goodrin
• The Bookshop at the End of the World - Madeleine Williams
• Interlude - Bianca
• Echo Chamber - K’Marree-943
• Towards Zero - Jennifer Huxley
• Castle Hydra - Myorrah/Alice
• Effect and Cause - Milal

Fifth Doctor Adventures

• The Moonrakers - Captain Riya Nehru

Stranded

• Baker Street Irregulars - Nisha

The Eighth Doctor: The Time War

• State of Bliss - Calla

The Tenth Doctor and River Song

• Precious Annihilation - Omara / Barmaid / Fanny

Bernice Summerfield

• Brand Management - Gabriella Dominicci

Gallifrey

• Evolution - Maris

Audiobook Readings

• Judgement Day

External links

• Anjli Mohindra at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Twitter account