Nandita Das
Acting
Biography
Nandita Das is an actor and director, one of the leading figures in the Indian film industry. She has acted in more than 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das has been acclaimed for numerous performances, including in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Azhagi (2002), Kamli (2006), and Before The Rains (2007). Her directorial debut was with Firaaq (2008), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, traveled to more than 50 festivals, and won more than 20 awards.
Born: November 7, 1969
Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Known For
Kannaki
Villagers Manickan and Choman are very close friends. Manickan is in love with Kannaki and wants to marry her but Choman wants him to marry his sister. It is loosely based on Shakespeare's story of Antony & Cleopatra
Lux Style Awards
The Lux Style Awards is the largest award ceremony held annually in Pakistan since 2002. The awards celebrate "style" in the Pakistani entertainment industry, and it is the oldest event dedicated to cinema, television, fashion, music and film industry in Pakistan.
Ramchand Pakistani
Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years in an Indian prison while the mother left behind wonders what has happened to them.
Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai
A mock trial during the rehearsal of a play quickly turns into a gripping drama about desire, gender issues, power and control, this is an adaptation of playwright Vijay Tendulkar's Shantata. Court Chalu Aahe (1963).
Mother of 1084
Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has finished his school and is now attending college. His parents are proud of him, and keep track of his progress. Then their world is shattered during the early hours, when they are informed by the police that Brati has been killed.
Kannathil Muthamittal
A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.
Rockford
The movie chronicles the arrival of a (Hindu) student to a strict all-boys Christian boarding school in India and his assimilation into the school. The change is quite dramatic to the protagonist and there are a lot of events that could look extremely abusive to the viewer.
Wonder Pets!
When school ends for the day, classroom pets Linny, Tuck, and Ming-Ming morph into heroes who sail the globe saving animals from all sorts of peril.
The Kapil Sharma Show
Fire
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
Filmography
as Reena
as Shakuntala
as Special Appearance
as Nandita Das
as Stella
as Herself
as Monghi
as Leela Benare
as Self
as Mina
as Esther
as Afia Kidwai
as Champa
as The Spinster
as Sajaani
as Radha Dalal
as Megha
as Bengal Tiger (voice)
as Thulasi
as Aditi
as Mallika Sen
as Mamta Shekari
as Aparna Suresh Verma
as Kannaki
as Shokhina
as Self
as M.D. Shyama
as Paro
as Supriya
as Saanvri
as Afsana
as Lily Vegas
as Shanta
as Nandini Mitra
as Sita
as Lakha