Mamata Shankar
Acting
Biography
Mamata Shankar (born 7 January 1955) is an Indian actress and dancer. She is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has acted in films by directors including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh. In addition to being an actress, she is a dancer and choreographer.
Born: January 7, 1955
Known For
Bhotbhoti
After losing his parents at a very tender age, Bhotbhoti was raised in a ghetto close to the Ganges by his 'daadi' (grandmother) who too has passed away. Daadi was a great story-teller and Bhotbhotis favourite story was the one about mermaids and their world that exists, or rather flourishes underwater. Bhotbhoti's belief was further strenthened when he found out, not in the distant past, a story (movie) on mermaids that floats on the televison screen, called The Mermaid Princess. His most prized possession, the dvd of the film stays in his little trunk under his chowki (bed) until he takes it out every night and puts it into his battered but not run-down collected and repaired dvd player which brings to him his Ariel (the name of the mermaid in the film). The Ganges calls out to him and while his friends (group members) are sloshed, he dives into the waters to look for his mermaid queen, but she is ever-elusive.
Crossroads
A gritty political thriller set at the backdrop of the violent Naxalite movement in 70’s Calcutta.
Dahan
On her way home the newlywed Romita is molested by five men. The only one who has the courage to help is the young female teacher Jhinuk. Because of that she becomes a heroine and is on all papers' front page. But the page is turning: As not only the police but also neighbours begin to ask embarrassing questions the two women are eventually intimidated and the five men are getting free with the help of corruption and male domination.
Antarleen
Kolkata police detective Aniket Sanyal (Kharaj) guess on a holiday to Kasuli in Himachal Pradesh after his wife's death, only to be sought out to solve the mystery behind the well-planned murder of another tourist.
Padatik
The film follows Mrinal Sen in his early days around the time of India’s independence, where he is a struggling idealist with an all-consuming hunger for cinema but unable to feed himself or his young wife, to 1950s Calcutta, where (alongside Satyajit Ray) he helped start the Indian New Wave cinema movement.
Ranjana Ami Ar Asbo Na
A Bengali language rock musical.
The Stranger
A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
Jaatishwar
Rohit, a Gujarati, studies the life of Anthony Firengee, and in the process meets with a mysterious man Kushawl Hajra.
An Enemy of the People
Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.
Projapati
A retired 65-year widower, Gaur Chakraborty, lives with his son, Joy, a wedding planner running his own business. Joy has a very busy schedule. Gaur wishes to be married. Will he be successful?
Filmography
as Sanghamitra Guhathakurta
as file footage
as Alakananda
as Mrs. Sarkar
as Mamata Sen
as Kusum Sen
as Labonyo
as Mrs. Sarkar
as Charulata Dutta
as Maa
as Mahamaya's Mother
as Deepti
as Sujata
as Parul
as Romita's Sister-in-Law
as Anila Bose
as Tapati Majumdar
as Indrani Gupta
as Mamata Sen
as Andi
as Nirupama
as Chinu
as Anjali
as Ghinua's Wife
as Nilamma