She’s soft-spoken, pretty, young and wise beyond her years. A real winner, Suchita Kudale runs Entre Nous (French for between you and me), one of Pune’s premier event management agencies. Suchita was an active member at Jaycee, where she organised events zealously. Putting her efforts on a commercial scale along with colleague Shirley Sequeria, they made event management quite a profitable profession. She began with organizing seminars and work paid off and her ideas and efforts met with an overwhelming response. Entre Nous was born at that time the concept of CAD was new in Pune. Though she did not know much, she made an effort of finding out everything and organized the entire package. Her work paid off and her ideas and efforts met with an overwhelming response. Entre Nous was born. She was then joined by Shirley Sequeria who had a passion for Indian drama and the rest is history.

Of course, due to her young age people often found it difficult to take her seriously. Though her sincerity and confidence was but obvious and there were a lot of people out there to encourage her. She decided to inject a little life into Pune, to make it as exciting as any other city. She introduced an entirely different concept of ‘supper theatres’ into Pune. While she admits, her most memorable play ever, I’m not Baji Rao’, because “it was the first of its kind. It was houseful and we were thrilled by the response.” Now what also takes up large part of Suchita’s attention and time are the workshops she organizes for kids. Workshops for children between 7 and 13 are organized every Saturday where children are allowed to do whatever they want. Being restricted at school and at home, Suchita feels that this is the place she can really watch them grow and bloom. As for the future, she is making sure that this world is a better place for the kids. Now that Shirley is in New Zealand and Suchita has to manage on her own, she says that it really doesn’t make that much of a difference as Shirley is always there mentally with Suchita. E-mail has helped a lot in keeping the two still working together.

The best part is that she is not in it for the money. Money has never been the most important factor and she has just been doing what she enjoys and what she is good at. A lot of their work is organized in aid of SOFOSH (an orphanage at the Sassoon Hospital). Well, between you, successful Suchita, and me they’re already halfway there.